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this defect, Biiat't'o'ji' Di'cshita*, -who revised 

 the Camudi, lias for very substantial reasons adhered 

 to the Fa'n'lniya siitras. That able grammarian has 

 made some iiseful changes in the arrangement of 

 the Pracriija : he has amended the explanation of 

 the rules, \vhich was in many places incorrect or im- 

 perfect : he has remedied many omissions ; has en- 

 larged the examples ; and has noticed the most im- 

 portant instances where the elder grammarians dis-^ 

 agree, or where classical poets have deviated from 

 the strict rules of grammar. This excellent work is 

 entitled Sidcrhdnfa Caumudu The author has very 

 properly followed the example of Ramachandra, 

 in excluding all rules that are peculiar to the ob- 

 solete dialect of the Veda, or M'hich relate to accen- 

 tuation ; for this also belongs to the Veda alone. He 

 has collected them in an appendix to the Sidd'hdnta 

 Cau7nudi ; and has subjoined in a second appendix 

 rules concerning the gender of nouns. The other 

 supplements of Pan'ini's grammar are interwoven 

 by this author with the body of his work. 



The Hindus delight in scholastick disputation. 

 Their grammarians indulge this propensity as much 

 as their lawyers and their sophists f. Biiat't'o'ji' 

 Di'cshita has provided an ample store of contro- 

 versy in an argumentative commentary on his outi 

 grammar. This work is entitled Prant'a menbramd. 

 He also composed a very voluminous commentary on 

 the eight lectures of Pan'i xi, and gave it the title of 

 S'abda Caustiibha. The only portion of it I have 

 yet seen reaches no farther than to the end of the 

 jfirst section of Pan'ini's first lecture. But this is 

 so diffusive, that, if the whole have been executed 

 on a similar plan, it must triple the ponderous vo- 

 lume 



* Descendants of Bh'a't't'o'ji' in the fifth or sixth degree are, I 

 am told, now living at Benares. He must have flourished then be- 

 tween one and two centuries ago. 



+ Many separate treatises on different branches of general gram- 

 mar are very properly considered as appertaining to the science oi 

 logick. 



