. Kritiken, 1838 47; Brit, and For. Rev. 1844, p. ■"■: 1846, p. 189; Christian Remembrancer, Jan. 1866, p. 164; Oct. 1868, p. 881. (J. II. \V.)
Pushtu Version. Pushtu is the language spo- ken in Afghanistan (q. v.), in Asia: hence it is also called Afghan. We have not as yet a complete ver- sion of the Holy Scriptures. The New Testament was first translated by the Rev. J. Lowenthal (d. 1864), a convert from Judaism. Besides the New Testament, the historical hooks of the < >ld Testament have hen pub- lished by the Serampore Mission. At pr< sent the Rev. I . P. Hughes, of the Church Missionary Society at Pesha- wer, is preparing a translation of the Old Testament in Pushtu. The commit tec of the British and Foreign Bible Society had some sheets of his MS. printed by the zinco- photographic process, to be submitted to Afghan schol- ars with a view of having the whole work printed in the same manner. For the study of the language, comp. Bellew, A Dictionary of th Pukkhto or Pukshto Lan- guage, on a Si a- and Improved Systt m (Lond. 1867) ; the same. .1 Grammar ofth Pukkhto or Pukshto Language (ibid.1867); Raverty, I Dictionary of th Pukhto,Push- to, ■■! Language ofth Afghans; with Remarks on the Originality of the Language, and its Affinity to th Se- mitic hikI other Oriental Languages (ibid. I860); the same, I Grammar ofth Pukhta, Pushto,or Language of the Afghans (ibid. I860); Selections from th Poetry oftheAfghans (ibid. 1862); The Gulshan-i-Roh : being
. Prose and Poetical, in the Pushto or Afghan Language (ibid. 1860); Th Poetry of the Afghans, from th IGth to the VMl, Century (ibid. 1863); Dom, A Chrestomathy of the Pushtu or Afghan Language (St. Petersburg, 1847). and his contributions to Th Pushtu Grammar in the Memoires dt V Icademu Tmpirialt des Saencesd SL-Pitersbourg (ibid. 1840, 1845); F.MUller, J >it Conjugation des A vghdnischen I'< rbums (Wien, 1867) : Ueber du Sprach der Ivghdnen (ibid. 1862 63); E. Trumpp, Grammar ofth Pashto, or Language ofth Afghans, compared with the Iranian and North-Indian Idioms (Tubingen, 1873). (B.P.)
Pusillanimity is a feebleness of mind, by which one is terrified at mere trifles or imaginary dangers, un- authorized by the most distant probability.
Puspadanta, in Hindu mythology, was one of the celebrated twelve Buddhas who were particularly wor- shipped by the Jainas. He was the son of Sugriya and of Roma, from the family oflkswaku. He is rep- resented as a man ending in'the body of a fish.— Voll- mer, Worterb. d. MythoL -. \.
Pustkuchen-Glanzow, Fr. (Vii.. a German theologian of some note, flourished as pastoral Wiebels- kirchen, near Treves. He was horn Feb, 4, 1793, at Detmold, and died Jan. 2, 1834. Hi wrote, Di Urge- schichii der Menschheitin ihrein vollen Umfangi (Lemgo, 1821): — Uistorisch-kritisch Untersuchung der bibl. Ur- geschichU (Halle, 1823): -Wiederherstellung des achten Protestantismus, etc. (Hamb. 1827):— i?er Bervf des i nun/I I. Pfarn rs nach .« im m Zwt ck u. W\ st n, etc. | Bar- mi n. lvo-' i: Grundziigt des Christenthums (Hamb. 1827, 3d ed.) :— Glaubens- u. Sittenlehn I Barmen, 1831 33, 2 vols.) : Maria, odi rdu Frommigki ildt r II'. ih r( Hamb. I827,2ded.)r— Kirche, SchuU u. Haus (Elberfeld, 1832). See Winer, Handbuch der theolog. Literatur, p. 717 (see Index i; Fttrst, Bibl. Judaica, iii, 124; Zuchold, BM Theohgica, iii, 1022; Diestel, Gesch. des Alien Testa- ments, p. 726, 7:;:;. ii;. P.)
Piistrich, an ill-shaped Slavonic idol: it is of bronze, and hollow. It represents a small, chubby boy holding one of his hands over his head. The head has two holes, one at the top, the other at the place ol the month. It is believed that the priests used this figure to terrify the people by the spectacle of an infuriated deity. It was filled with water, and. the holes being stopped, put on a fire: in due time the stoppers were driven out of the holes with considerable noise and tre- mendous eruption of steam and boiling water, other more modern investigations would lead to thi sion that the chubby god was nothing but an instrument of distillery. — Vollmer, Worterb. d. MythoL s. v.
Put i 1 Chron. i. 8; Xah. iii. it). See Phut.
Pute'oli (Grsecized Hon'oAo) [Acts xxviii, 13 . but in classical (. nek often novnoXoi; a Latin word, from puteus, a well, on account id' the vselli volcanic origin with which it abounded), a maritime town of Campania, in Italy, oil the northern shore of the ha\ of Naples, and about eight miles north-west from that city. Here Paul landed on his way to Rome (Acts xxviii. 13 I. A- above noted, it derived its name from its tepid hath-, and the district in which they exist is now called Terra di Lavoro. The earlier name of Puteoli, u Inn the lower part of Italy was I (reek, was Dicatarchia; and this name continued to be used to a laic period. Josephus uses it in two passagi xvii. 12, 7: xviii, 7. 2); in a third (Life,3), he speaks of himself (after the shipwreck w hicb, like St. Paul, he hid recently gone through) as diaau&eic. n'r rrjv Ai- Kaiapxiav, tjv TIotioXovc lraXoi KaXovoiv. So Philo, in describing the curious interview which he and his fellow J ■ wish ambassadors had here with Caligula, uses the old name (Legat, ml Caium, ii. 521). Its Roman history may he said to have begun with the Second Punic