Wojtilla Gyula: A List of Words Sanskrit and Hungarian by Alexander Csoma de Kőrös.
II. Csoma and Sanskrit Studies
50 whole Sanskrit literature. To his own nation he felt pride in announcing that the study of Sanskrit would be more satisfactory to it than to any other people in Europe. "The Hungarians would find a fund of information from the study of the Sanskrit respecting their origin, manners, customs, and language, since the structure of the Sanskrit, and also of other Indian dialects, is most analogous. As an example of this close analogy, in Hungarian postpositions are used instead of prepositions; by a simple syllabic addition to the verbal root, and without any auxiliary verb, the several kinds of verbs, namely, the active, passive, causal, desiderative , frequentative and reciprocal, are formed in the same manner as in Sanskrit." 2 2 Beside this printed material we hear about his plans which he "disinclined putting ... on record" and there is his List of word s , a collection of proposals.
