highly desirable, that this work should be made of general avail, there being no other treatise possessing so many recommendations to form a text-book. As this object can only be attained by means of an English version, an attempt has, with much diffidence, been made in the following pages to put the work into an English dress, without strictly adhering to the original where departure from it in no way interfered with its general scope.
The translator, from his experience as a teacher of Sanskrit in the Presidency College, felt the necessity of enlarging certain parts of the work for the better comprehension of the learners, and he has, with the permission of the Author, made the necessary additions and alterations. They are not however radical, nor inconsistent with the general character of the work.
Calcutta,
26th November, 1866.
