304 A few remarks on the third edition of {.No. 4. 



prefix ^r or ^*r , and with the intensive particle ^f?r, could, without 

 the slightest loss, also be dispensed with. If ^f?T5H^lT^«T nave a 

 title to presentment, why should any combination whatever of a 

 particle, an adjective, and a substantive, into an epithet, be extruded, 

 when it shews itself? 



JS"or have we yet done. The proper names of heroic and mythical 

 personages mentioned up and down the Mahdbhdrata, the Ramayana, 

 the Puranas, &c, can hardly be less than a hundred thousand. Yet 

 none of them is to be neglected by Dr. Goldstiicker, if he adheres 

 to the method, on which he has begun, of pouring a biographical 

 index into a dictionary proper. Half a quarto page and more is 

 assigned to Angiras, two-thirds of a page to Atri, one-third of a 

 page to Agasti, and as much to Agni. Descending to the limits of 

 sober history, the kings of Cashmere, their wives, their daughters, 

 their chamberlains, and their generals, have, each, a niche. Even 

 Adwaitananda is remembered : " one of the founders of the Vaish- 

 nava sect in Bengal. He lived about the end of the fifteenth 

 century." Nor are the shadowy actors in avowed fictions reckoned 

 unworthy of commemoration ; such as Anangasena, " the proper 

 name of a courtesan in a drama." That the cloak of indefiniteness 

 is thus thrown about this frail beauty may, by possibility, not be a 

 squandering of generous delicacy : but, at the same time, it is perti- 

 nent to enquire why she should here be obtruded on us, even for 

 half-acquaintance. The Vdsavadattd of Subandhu introduces us, 

 in one place, to a whole novenary of nymphs, and, in another, to a 

 drawing-room of as many as two and thirty ; all of them, on cha- 

 ritable presumption, quite as it was expected they should be, in 

 spite of the somewhat warm tone of their conversation. Though 

 the alphabetical leader of them, Anangalekha, has, we perceive, 

 eluded Dr. Goldstucker's attentions, he should thank us for intimat- 

 ing to him that just two score still await the courtesy which he 

 cannot now, with any more grace than consistency, deny them. 

 Again, in the liar sha- char it a we read of thirty-eight lads and lasses 

 — their names all spelled out at length — who used to assist Bana 

 when he played at royalty. And why, by parity of reason, should 

 Charanakaranka. Kalakalada, Haranika, and the rest be forgotten? 

 Qlie S'unlcara-dig-vijaya likewise contains some hundreds of proper 



