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0178 Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia : vol.3
インドおよび高地アジアへの科学調査隊派遣の成果 : vol.3
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doi: 10.20676/00000041
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'Marathi Dictionary,' generally follows Dr. Gilchrist's system, which was then also
generally employed in official publications.

"In 1834 certain missionaries and civilians made a vigorous effort to establish what
they termed the Romanizing system, nearly identical with that of Sir William Jones.
The names of Duff, Pearce, Yates, and Thomas, as well as H. F. Prinsep, J. Prinsep,
J. Tytler, and Sir Charles Trevelyan, are connected with the respective memoirs
printed at Serampûr. Mr. Crow's treatise on writing oriental words was printed in
Calcutta, 1845."

Quite recently the question of a more correct transcription was taken up with
much zeal in Madras, and the interest evinced in an accurate transcription is the more
warmly to be encouraged in a presidency where the variety of the dialects, as well
as the arbitrary spelling hitherto in use, oppose unusual difficulties to any improve-
ment or alteration.

Perhaps the transcription then proposed may still be objected to, for general
use, as containing too many details; we quite agree, however, with the principles, so
well explained (and also supported by the Hon. Walter Elliott at Madras) in one
of the most recent memoirs, "Report on the Sub-Committee appointed to consider the
questions of writing Oriental words in Roman Characters," by W. H. Bayley, Esq., Madr.
Journ., Vol. III., No. X., p. 235-47.¹ In this it is particularly mentioned that difficulties
altogether unexpected presented themselves on many points of the subject. One of these
difficulties consisted in the frequent discrepancy occurring in the orthography of the
more modern forms of a word.² In such cases Mr. Bayley proposes to select the
form most generally in use, to designate it as such, and to adhere to it in all official
publications, a method considerably limiting arbitrary corruptions, and facilitating the
extension of correct ideas of spelling amongst the European and native population.

In concluding these introductory remarks of the geographical Glossary I cannot
do better than draw attention to the circumstance, that, even for many delicate