WCP3283

6, Huntingdon Road,

Cambridge.

11^th Sept[embe]^r 1904

Dear M^r Sharpe

I will take your previous seriation Sloka 83.¹ The word is a misprint for ख प ऌपा by one's own wife[.]

Sloka 93[:] The first letter of the second pāda² of the second line is a vowel rî[,] the word is ṛddhischittavikârinî[.]

Sloka 82[:] you will find the word आयाति in Mon[ier]. William's dict[ionary]. p 148 col[umn] 2 third word[.]³

I am sorry I cannot read M^r Wallace's letter⁴ — It is quite illegible as the letters are not properly formed and they are not joined as in the ordinary Arabic. It is however interesting from [2] the point of view of being a primitive way of writing— I have seen something of the kind in some of the charms ^{from the Maldives Islands} that M^r [one illeg. word]⁵was working at. But then these were words of known religious formula which one could read easily. If Mr Wallace remembers the writer and can give some hints as to what he might mean, I might try it again some other time & might also show it to Professor Bevan⁶. The letter with its cover is herewith returned.

Yours very truly | Mr Ali Bilgrami [signature]

P.S. I am going to [three words illeg.] All my people are there already.