﻿£0S ON THE SANSCRIT 



succinctly as could consist with perspicuity, his 

 woi k is nevertheless voluminous ; and yet, copious 

 as It is, the commentaries on it, and the annotations 

 or> its commentaries, are still more voluminous. 

 Amongst the most celebrated is tlie Padamanjari of 

 Harada TTA MiSRA ; a grammarian whose autho- 

 rity is respected almost equally with that of the 

 author, on whose text he comments. The annota- 

 tors on this again are uum.erous ; but it would be 

 useless to insert a long list of their names, or of the 

 -titles of their works. 



Excellent as the Casica Trttti undoubtedly is, 

 it partakes of the defects which have been imputed 

 to Pan'ixi's text. Followinaj the s:ime order, in 

 which the original rules are arranged, it is well 

 adapted to assist the student in acquiring a critical 

 knowledge of the Sanscrit tongue. 13 ut for one 

 who studies the rudiments of the language, a dif- 

 ferent arrangement is requisite, for the sake of 

 bringing into one view the rules which must be re- 

 membered in the inflections of one word, and those 

 v.hieh must be combined even for a single variation 

 of a siniile term. Such a <»-rammar has been com- 

 piled within afew centuries past by Ramachandra, 

 an eminent grammarian. It is entitled Pracriya- 

 caumudi. The rules are Pan'ini's, and the expla- 

 nation of them is abridged from the ancient com- 

 mentaries ; but the arrangement is wholly different. 

 It proceeds from the elements of v^^riting to defini- 

 tions; thence to orthography : it afterwards exhibits 

 the inflections of nouns according to case, number, 

 und gender; notices tlie indeelinables ; and pro- 

 ceeds ta tlie uses of the cases : it subjoins the rules 

 of opposition, by which compound terms are formed ; 

 the etymology of patronymicks and other derivatives 

 from nouns; and tiie reduplication of particles, &:c.^ 

 In the second part, it tre:its of the conjugation of 

 verbs arranged i-n ten classes : to these primitives 

 succeed derivative verbs, formed from verbal roots, 



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