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are no whit inferior to the Raja. Every hody knows that so vast and 

 voluminous a thing could never have come forth from the hands of a 

 single mortal. Forty Frenchmen assisted in the completion of the Dic- 

 tionary of the Royal Academy. It is a pity the names of Tarachand 

 Tarkabhusana, Is' vara Chandra Tarkasiddhanta, Ramacumara Siromani, 

 and Sarbananda Nyabagishya, the present, and of Sivanath Bhattachar- 

 jya and Hariprasad Tarkapunchanun the past co-adjutors of the Raja 

 have not been recorded in a corner of his Preface, but we think this is 

 purely accidental, — for the Raja would not willingly grudge them so ne- 

 cessary a consideration. We allude to the fact particularly inasmuch as 

 remunerated labor however immeasurably superior to the remuneration 

 itself, commands not the esteem and gratitude of the natives of this land. 

 But this so far from being a correct principle of judgment that the most 

 remarkable achievements of the world would in that case be completely 

 bereft of their engrossing merit. 



In a cursory notice of this nature, it is impossible critically to consider 

 the variedly important contents of this Lexicon. It can be however gene- 

 rally stated that our Encyclopaedist is always in his element on Puranic, 

 Tantric and on all subjects connected with the modern literature of the 

 Brahmans, to which he has done ample justice. The work is not very 

 full in the technicalities of the medical science, of the different systems 

 of philosophy and of the Vedas ; but we hope the Raja will supply these 

 deficiencies in the supplement he promises ; and in that expectation, 

 strongly recommend to his notice Yaska's Nirukta, every page of which 

 will supply him with new matter ; the first page of the Nighantu con- 

 tains at least a hundred words not to be met with in his Lexicou. 



The Sanskrita Press of Calcutta which we have had to notice more 

 than once, has lately published a volume of selections from the Pancha- 

 tantra and a Grammar of the Sanskrit language in Bengali, for the use 

 of the Government Sanskrit College. Both the works are very well 

 got up, and, we are satisfied, will prove highly useful. The Grammar 

 is intended to do away with the old Pandit-system of teaching the 

 language of the gods. It has no veneration for the mystic Sutras 

 of Panini and Vopadeva, and supplies their place with a series of simple 

 and explicit rules in Bengali, with the aid of which one may learn the 



