TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.
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In none of the languages of the world, whether living or dead, does Grammar play so important a part as in Sanskrit. The complex and elaborate system of its Grammar, enunciated in abstruse rules, renders the language extremely difficult of acquisition. The Introduction to Sanskrit Grammar in Bengali by Pundit Iswarachandra Vidyasagara, which has so much facilitated the study of Sanskrit, may be said to mark an era in the cultivation of that language in Bengal. But the facilities afforded by this work are not available to foreigners or to natives of other Provinces of India, by reason of its Bengali dress. Translations of it have, accordingly, been made into the vernaculars of some of the other Provinces.
The introduction of Sanskrit into the curriculum of Indian Universities, renders it
