Prâkrit idioms, the, [146].

Prâtiśâkhyas, the, of the Brahmans, [116].

Priest, origin of the word, [122].

Priscianus, influence of his grammatical work on later ages, [114].

Protagoras, his attempt to change and improve the language of Homer, [48].

Provençal, the daughter of Latin, [171].

not the mother of French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, [171].

the earliest Provençal poem, [196].

Prussian, the old, language and literature of, [200].

Ptolemy, his system of astronomy, although wrong, important to science, [26].