Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 10J.W. Parker, 1847 - Middle East Most years contain the Proceedings and Annual report of the society. |
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abara abava abiya Achæmenian adá adam áha akunaush amiya aorist appears Arian Armenia Artaxerxes aspiration athaha Auramazdá awadá awam awathá Babylon Babylonian Behistun Behistun Inscription Burnouf character clause column compound conjecture consonant Cuneiform Cyaxares Darius the King:-(2 dental Devanagari Dicit doubtful employed employment etymology euphonic grace of Ormazd Greek guttural hachá hadá hamar(a)nam hauwa huwa Hystaspes inflexion inscriptions Iyam k'hshayathiya kára káram kartam King language Lassen letter locative mám maná martiya masc Median copy Memoir náma neuter niya noun observe Ormazd brought help orthography paragraph Pársa particle Pasáwa passage patiya Pehlevi perhaps Persepolis Persian Persian alphabet Phraortes plur preceding Professor pronoun putra remark restoration rough copy Sanskrit Says Darius Scythic Semitic sibilant signifying sing sonant suffix suppose surd Susiana tablet Thátiya Dár(a)yavush khsháyathiya translation tyam upastám utá verb vowel washná wasiya Westergaard word Xerxes yathá Zend
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Page 186 - Then Cambyses proceeded to Egypt. When Cambyses had gone to Egypt the state became wicked ; then the lie became abounding in the land, both in Persia and in Media and in the other provinces.
Page 193 - Media, and the other provinces ; as in the days of old ; thus I restored that which had been taken away. By the grace of ORMAZD I did this. I laboured until I had established our family in its place as in the days of old.
Page 277 - The great god Ormuzd, (he it was) who gave this earth, who gave that heaven, who gave mankind, who gave life to mankind, who made Darius king, as well the king of the people as the lawgiver of the people.
Page lxiii - Ormazd (with the exception of a single epithet omitted in the tablet of Darius) ; they contain the same enumeration of the royal titles, and the same statement of paternity and family ; and, in fact, they are identical, except in the names of the kings and in those of their respective fathers. When I proceeded, therefore, to compare and interline the two inscriptions (or rather, the Persian columns of the two inscriptions ; for as the compartments exhibiting the inscription in the Persian language...
Page 7 - His Majesty the King of the Belgians; His Majesty the King of Spain ; The President of the...
Page xv - I reinstituted for the state the sacred chaunts and (sacrificial) worship, and confided them to the families which GOMATES the Magian had deprived of those offices.
Page 33 - ... of his kingdom, and to relate, with a perspicuous brevity worthy of imitation, the leading incidents of his reign. We are hardly prepared, indeed, in the narrative of an Eastern despot, to meet with the dignified simplicity, the truthfulness, and self-denial which characterise this curious record. His grave relation of the means by which, under the care and favour of a beneficent Providence, the crown of Persia first fell into his hands, and of the manner in which he subsequently established...
Page xxiii - Ormazd has brought help to me, and the other gods which are (brought help to me.) " 13. Says Darius the king: — On that account Ormazd brought help to me, and the other gods which are, (because) that I was not a heretic, nor was I a liar, nor was I a tyrant.
Page 236 - Be it known to thee, my Successor, that which has been done by me, thus publicly, on that account that thou conceal not. If thou conceal not this edict but publish it to the world, Ormazd shall be a friend to thee, and may thy offspring be numerous, and mayest thou be long lived. 1 1 Says Darius the King : — If thou shalt conceal this record and not publish it to the world may Ormazd be thy enemy, and mayest thou be childless.
Page xiii - I am Darius, the great king, the king of kings, the king of Persia, the king of (the dependent) provinces, the son of Hystaspes, the grandson of Arsames, the Achaemenian.