162 Translations from Chand. [No. 4, 



I learn, however, from the September Proceedings of the Society 

 that Mr. Beames (to whom the Philological Committee have entrusted 

 the task of editing the complete poem) has prepared a separate trans- 

 lation of another canto, and has published a short specimen of it. It 

 so happens that the portion selected is contained in one of my MSS. 

 I have referred to it m my second paper, vol. 38, page 4. So far as 

 I can judge from the English, the text used by Mr. Beames coincides 

 closely with mine ; but our views on the interpretation of many 

 passages are far from coincident, as I will shortly proceed to shew. 



I wish in the first place to reproduce the original text. This will 

 occupy no great amount of space, since the passage in question consists 

 only of 40 lines ; and so very little of the text has ever yet appeared 

 in print that many to whom MSS. are inaccessible may be glad to 

 have a further specimen of it. Mr. Beames too will thus be able to 

 see at once where difference of rendering is due to difference of 

 reading. To the text I will append my own translation and subjoin 

 a few notes, more especially at the points of divergence. 



I am aware that it is much easier to detect flaws in another man's 

 work, and to avoid them in rebuilding on the same plan than it is to 

 succeed in constructing on an independent basis ; but I cannot be 

 justly impugned for essaying only the inferior task, since two of my 

 own attempts already published are equally open to adverse criticism, 

 and I propose to conclude this article by adding a third to the series. 

 It will be, I hope, by a stringent examination of them that Mr. 

 Beames will repay me in kind for my strictures on his performance. 



Here follows the text of Mr. Beames' translation, as it stands in 

 the Mainpuri MS. 



