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He then enumerates the various substances, qualities, actions, etc., 

 after which he explains the properties, common to all categories, and 

 then those, common to more or less of them. After this exposition the 

 different substances in their relations to themselves and to other sub- 

 stances as well as to their qualities and actions are explained. 



In the same way the author discusses the qualities of the substances, 

 and his work is finished, when he has treated on the last quality, enu- 

 merated at the commencement of his treatise. The other categories are 

 not especially inquired into, which indeed was not necessary, as they 

 are dependent upon substances, qualities and actions, and their applica- 

 tions have been fully given, whenever the relations of the categories 

 required it. 



The first edition of the Sanscrit text of the Bhasha Paricheda appear- 

 ed in 1827, under the auspices of the Committee of Public Instruction. 

 The Sanscrit text in Bengalee characters was sometime afterwards 

 reprinted with the addition of a Bengalee translation of the text, as 

 well as of the commentary, of this latter, however, with considerable 

 alterations. On the merits of the Bengalee translation I am unable to 

 express an opinion, as I saw this edition but once, and did afterwards 

 not succeed in getting a copy of it. The translation, which I offer to 

 the public, is made as literal as the idiom of the English language 

 would admit, and although it was my endeavour strictly to adhere to the 

 English idiom, I was sometimes forced slightly to deviate from it, in 

 order to convey more precisely the meaning of the original. 



In conclusion, I cannot omit gratefully to acknowledge the liberality 

 of the Asiatic Society, which enabled me to add the Sanscrit original 

 to the translation. This text is a mere reprint from the Calcutta 

 edition, free, however, from the few errata found there. There is no 

 manuscript of this work in the Library of the Asiatic Society with 

 which I could have compared the Calcutta edition. I believe, however, 

 that such a comparison would have been quite unnecessary, as an 

 incorrectness of the text must disclose itself in a philosophical work like 

 this by the want of connexion, and can therefore be easily rectified. 



(To be continued.) 



