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Marathas, and may therefore contain marginal notes, made by scholars of 

 that country. Where I thought them useful, I have retained them, and it 

 would be interesting to examine, whether Madhava's commentary has been 

 subjected to a still farther emendation, especially in the Dekhan. Should 

 you be able to purchase or borrow some other MSS. from India, you would 

 confer a great obligation upon me ; but the copies ought not to be of modern 

 date, which, as I said before, we have here in abundance. I believe I can 

 render the text correct by the means of the MSS. at my disposal, especially 

 by the MSS. of Dr. Mill. 



I take the liberty to send you the first 120 pages of my edition, and request 

 your candid opinion concerning them, as by your labours on the same ground 

 you are best able to judge. The introduction especially presents a number 

 of difficulties, and I was obliged to devote a long time to the study of the 

 Purva Mimansa, to understand and verify the quotations from Jaimini and 

 Madhava's Nyaya-mala-vistara, and to follow, by the assistance of other works, 

 for instance of Sahara's commentary, the complicated, but logically precise 

 argumentation. I have added the passages from Panini, for the purpose of 

 facilitating its study, as it is often difficult to find the Sutras, if they are not 

 complete, and especially the Varttikas, which Boethlinck has unfortunately 

 often omitted in his otherwise useful and diligent edition of Panini. I also 

 quote Unadi and Philsutra, Nirukta, Pratisakhya and Aswalayana, which 

 (quotations) will of course more and more cease in the latter books. I have 

 not entered upon the quotations from the Brahmanas, as I was not able to 

 verify all of them j moreover the division in these works is so uncertain, that 

 it appeared more expedient to wait for an edition of the text. I intend^ 

 however, to verify and explain in my notes the most important quotations 

 from these works also. 1 did not think proper to omit passages of the 

 commentary, first, as it is a work of reference, where it is irksome to be 

 referred from one place to another ; and secondly, as in the repeated expla- 

 nations important additions and differences are frequently met with. I am, 

 however, willing to improve, where improvements can be made, and I should 

 therefore feel greatly obliged, if you would transmit these printed sheets to 

 some of the most learned pundits in Calcutta or Benares for their opinion. 

 It is of course my wish to render this edition useful also for India, and it 

 would be very interesting to me to hear the opinion of Indian scholars, 

 especially as most of them appear to believe, that no European could satis- 

 factorily execute a work of this kind. I would especially be gratified to hear 

 the opinion of learned men above the prejudices of their country, as Raja 

 Radha Kant Deb, for instance, who by his dictionary has acquired the lasting 

 gratitude of all Sanskrit scholars, and who best knows, that the ancient 

 literature of India need not to be screened from the light of publicity, but 



