23/23 Marusthala is called simply 'the desert.'] [Footnote 22: The earlier _ayas_, Latin _aes_, means bronze not iron, as Zimmer has shown, loc.cit.p.51. Pischel, _Vedische Studien_, I, shows that elephants are mentioned more often than was supposed (but rarely in family-books).] [Footnote 23: Weber, _Indische Studien,_ I.p. 399 ff., 410.] [Footnote 24: Very lately (1893) Franke has sought to show that the P[=a]li dialect of India is in part referable to the western districts (Kandahar), and has made out an interesting case for his novel theory (ZDMG.xlvii. |