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6. (a) Trace the connection between the roots and pre- 10 sent meaning of officious, anecdote, plausible, allow,

merely.

(b) Illustrate the common origin of English, Sanskrit
and Latin by citing at least five English words
with their equivalents in Sanskrit or Latin.

7. How are English plurals formed? Give examples of 10 irregular formations. Give instances of nouns that vary their meaning with their Number, and of nouns that have no Singular.

Give the first person of the present and past tenses, and the past participle of lay, sit, awake, chose, set, tore, lie, fly, bear, flee.

8. Give Saxon equivalents for the following words of 5 Latin origin:

Puerile, animation, unavailing, mortal malady, dis-
regarded, solitude, collaterally, precipitous, liberty.

MONDAY, 17TH NOVEMBER.

[2 P.M. TO 4 P. M.]

ELEMENTARY HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY.

The Rev. J. V. S. TAYLOR,
B.A.

The Rev. J. HAMILTON, S.J.
P. PETERSON, M.A.

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J. T. HATHORNTHWAITE, M. A.
The Rev. D. MACKICHAN,
M.A., B. D.

F. G. SELBY, B.A.

A. BARRETT, B.A.

[The figures to the right indicate full marks.]

ENGLISH HISTORY.

What were the circumstances which led to the con- 5 quest of Ireland?

2. What were the principal conditions of the Treaties 12 of Bretigni, Utrecht and Dover?

3. In whose reign and between what powers were the following battles fought :-Camperdown, Dunbar, Bunker Hill, Tenchebrai, Dettingen. St. Vincent, Flodden, Sedgemoor, Corunna, Killiecrankie, Worcester, Culloden, and Shrewsbury?

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4.

Write a short account of any two of the following :-
The Duke of Wellington, Stephen Langton, Anselm,
William Caxton, Sebastian Cabot, John Knox, Graham
of Montrose.

INDIAN HISTORY.

1. Over what period did the reign of the Mughul Emperors in India extend? Give a detailed account of the policy and campaigns of Akbar.

2. Describe the circumstances of the annexation of the Punjab.

3. What part in Marathi history was played by the Peishwas after the death of Sivaji ?

GEOGRAPHY.

1. Enumerate the British possessions throughout the world, describing briefly the nature and position of each. 2. Draw a Map of India representing the boundaries of the British Provinces and Native States, also the mountain ranges and rivers with their names.

3. Trace the course of the following rivers, naming the cities which are situated on them :-The Elbe, St. Lawrence, Rio de la Plate, Indus and tributaries,

4. Explain how the climate of a country depends on its latitude.

The latitude of Moscow is 55° N. The same parallel of latitude passes Labrador and near Edinburgh. The average height of the thermometer in these three places is 40° in Moscow, 28° in Labrador, and 47° in Edinburgh. Explain the causes of these differences.

TUESDAY, 18TH NOVEMBER.

[10 A. M. TO 1 P.M.]

SANSKRIT.

R. G. BHANDARKAR, M.A., Hon. M. R.A.S.

[The figures to the right indicate full marks.] 1. Translate into English :

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आनन्दमृगदावाग्निः शीलशाखिमदद्दिपः ।
ज्ञानदीपमहावायुरयं खलसमागमः ॥

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यान्ति नरा महत्त्वम् |

भलब्धशाणोत्कषणा नृपाणां न जातु
मौलौ मणयो वसन्ति ॥

कदाचिद्राजा बहिरुद्यानं मध्येमा प्र त्यानं कपि विप्रं ददर्श । तस्य करे चर्ममये कमण्डलुं वीक्ष्य तं चातिदरिद्रं ज्ञाखा मुखश्रिया विराजमानं चावलोक्य तुरंगं तदग्रे निधायाह विप्र चर्मपात्रं किमर्थं पाणौ वहसीति । स च विप्रो नूनं मुखशोभया मृदुक्त्या च भोज इति विचार्याह | देव वदान्यशिरोमणौ भोजे पृथ्वीं शासति लोहताम्राभावः समजाने तेन चर्ममयं पात्र वहामीति । राजाह भोजे शासति लोहताम्राभावे को हेतुः । तदा विप्रः पठति

अस्य श्रीभोजराजस्य द्वयमेव सुदुर्लभम् ।
शत्रूणांशङ्क लैर्लोहं ताम्रं शासनपत्रकैः ॥

2. Name and dissolve the compounds underlined in the above passages.

3. Write down the forms of the accusative and instru

mental of महत् m., उपेयिवस् m. and. पुंस, पथिन्, सखि and दोष.

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4. Give the dative sing. and plur. of fa, ¤¤स्पृश, उदच् , दिव् and खलपू.

5. Give the feminine forms of दत्, शाम्यत्, आत्मीय, लघुतम, गाङ्गेय, त्रिंशत्तम, यशस्कर, वार्षिक, भयंकर, स्थापक.

6. Give (a) the 3rd person of the present of,T, (b) of the imperfect of a, fa, parasm., fqq and

and नू ;

रुदू; and (c) of the aorist of T

atm., मन्, तन् parasm. and dtm., दुहू parasm. and âtm., and ; and (d) the 2nd person of the perfect of भी, वद्, अर्दू, and वे parasm. and dum.

7. Give the rule about the change of the radical 3 to and the dropping of the reduplicative syllable in the perfect, together with the exception, with instances.

8. Write down the 3rd pers. sing. present of the causal of

हे, की and रुहू, and of the desiderative of रभ, सिव,

and बन्धू.

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Two or three days after that, the jackal was drinking at the pond, and the crocodile saw him directly and seized his foot tightly; but the jackal said cunningly You have seized a stick which is put here for measuring the height of the water." The crocodile looked at it, and thinking it to be really a stick let it go; and the jackal leaped out of the water and exclaimed, "I have escaped, or else he would have killed and eaten me."

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TUESDAY, 18TH NOVEMBER.

[10 A.M. TO 1 P.M.]

LATIN.

M. MACMILLAN, B.A.

[The figures to the right indicate full marks. ]

1. Give the accusative sing. and dative plural of tussis, 25 incus, vis, aer, ver, caro, supellex, caput, jecur, acer, uterque, and idem; the comparative and superlative of difficilis, celer, nequam, dubius, diu, and graviter; the first person singular perfect indicative, active and the supine in um of gigno, sepelio, tango, tendo, cerno, lavo, discedo, sino, lego; the meanings of quidam, quilibet, quivis, quot, aliquot. num, nonne, coram, citra, en, semel, nonagies, Idus, esurio, and puerasco; and the various uses of the conjunction ut and the ablative case in Latin.

2. Put into Latin

He told the soldiers to use their swords.

He told them he was dying.

He is envied

He asked how many had gone to Rome, and was
answered that no one had gone.

Do not remember my words.

He besought them never to forget him.

He was so faithless that no one believed his words.

He is ashamed of the deed.

Twenty ships sailed from the city of Athens.

If Pompey had conquered Cæsar, he would have
slain many of Cæsar's friends.

3. Translate into English

Fulvius consul profectus in Ligures, per invios montes vallesque saltus cum exercitu transgressus, signis collatis cum hoste pugnavit; neque tantum acie vicit, sed castra quoque eodem die cepit. Tria milia ducenti hostium omnisque ea regio Ligurum in deditionem venit. Consul deditos in campestres agros deduxit, praesidiaque montibus imposuit. Celeriter et ex provincia litterae Romam venerunt: supplicationes ob eas res gestas in triduum decretae sunt; praetores quadraginta hostiis majoribus per supplicationes rem divinam fecerunt. Ab altero consule L. Manlio nihil memoria dignum in Liguribus est gestum. Galli Transalpini trid milia hominum, in Italiam transgressi, neminem bello ℗ 595-2 ex*

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