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PALPA.
"PALPA is a division of
Northern Hindustan, subject to the
Nepalese. It is situated below
the Hima-
layas, north of Oude and east of
Kumaon. No accurate estimate
appears to have been made of the
amount of population to whom the Palpa dialect is vernacular, and little is
known even respecting the
distinctive peculiarities of the dialect itself; for although the Serampore mies.
have furnished
a version of the New Testament in Palpa, they have given us no details
illustrative of the structure
of this dialect, or of its points of divergence from the other members of the
Sanscrit stem.
The Serampore version was commenced in 1817,
and part of the Gospel of St. Matthew was
printed in 1822; an edition of 1000 copies of the New Testament was completed
before 1832. This
work has hitherto been comparatively useless, for although a few copies have been presented to natives
who have occasionally visited Calcutta, no opportunities for general
distribution of the Scriptures in
Palpa have yet occurred."--The Bible of Every Land. (1860, Second
Edition) Samuel Bagster [Info only]
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