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languages to be generally cultivated by the people of Europe. Nor does there seem any reason in the theory which would make such a conformity incompatible with the laws of euphony.

It only remains to add, that in a work, small and unpretending though it be, in which so many minute points and marks have been employed to represent the Sanscrit character by the Roman, the correction of the press has been a task of no small labour. In this labour Professor Johnson, an Oriental scholar of whose varied attainments the East-India College has reason to be proud, has cheerfully co-operated, and in other matters also has freely given the benefit of his valuable advice and great experience. But whilst to him much of the merit is due that may belong to this book on the score of accuracy, it must be distinctly understood that he is entirely free from the responsibility of its novel structure and arrangement. It is also fair to state that some of the detail of the following pages has been suggested by a careful perusal of Professor Bopp's Sanscrit Grammar, printed at Berlin.

EAST-INDIA COLLEGE,
July 1846.

SANSCRIT GRAMMAR.

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