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सामान्यविवेचन व दिग्दर्शन. २३ मौल्यवान खडे, वानर ( कपि, ) मोर (शिखी, मयूर, ) हस्तिदन्त ( इभदन्त ), इत्यादि पदार्थ सिन्धु नदीवरील ( बंदरांतून आरवस्थानांतील ईझिअन गिबर नामक बंद- रांत नेत. चन्दन, वानर, मोर, आणि हस्तिदन्त, ह्या शब्दांस ही त्र्यू भाषेत मुळीच नांवें नसल्याकारणानें, व ह्या वस्तू त्यांच्या दृष्टीस भरतखंडांतच प्रथमतः पडल्यामुळे, ते त्यांस संस्कृत नामधेयांनीच ओळखीत आणि हाक मारीत अर्थात्, परकीयांच्या उच्चारांत, ह्या संस्कृत शब्दांचा पुष्कळच अपभ्रंश होत गेला, हे खालील विवे चनावरून वाचकांच्या ध्यानांत सहजीं येईल. . The arguments ( मागील पृष्टावरून पुढे चालू ) peacocks and Sindal wood. " bronght. forwanl by Quatremere in his Memoire Sur le Pugs d Oplir, against fixing Ophir on the Indian Coast, are not conclusive. The argu- ments derived from the names of the articles ex- ported from Ophir, were unknown to him. It is necessary to mention this, because (Quatremere's nane desergedly carries grat weight, and his essay on Ophir has Intely been republished in the Billiotherque classigue des cele brites contempo roines. 1861. The identification of Ophir with some place in India is not a modern conjecture, The Vulgate trauslates Job XXVIII; 16. It cannot bo valued with the gold of Ophir,' (Sophir LXX), by Non confereturtinctis Indiac coloribns. In- coptic, Sofir is the name for India, by which the LXX translated the ( Max Muller's Lectures. the same word Hebiew Ophir. ' Sc. of L vol. I. P. 234-235.)