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].