12 ~ Account or a DISCOVERY OF A 
18. 
Z. Bina bedat notognanam hedohi dour guomon poron, 
Vind véddét natajnydnam védahi durgamam param. 
The knowledge of that, ean be obtained only by the Veda, but 
a knowledge of the Véda is most difficult to acquire. 
19. 
Pochondonadicarisso, bedo chastro chemussojon, 
Pashandandstic’ arch, han Véda Séstra samuchchayam. 
Heretics and atheists have confused the whole of the Véda 
Sdstra. 
‘Tis specimen of the original will suffice to convince those acquainted 
with the Sanscrit and with the changes it undergoes in the Pracrits and 
spoken dialects, that this work, whether the author were a Native or a 
European, must either have originated in the provinces of Bengal and 
Orissa, or have been composed by some one, who had there learned the 
rudiments of the Sanscrit. As the establishment of this fact will tend 
materially to facilitate the tracing of these forgeries to their origin, I 
shall, also, endeavor to prove it to the satisfaction of those not acquainted 
with the Sanscrit and its derivative dialects. The Bengali, with which 
the Uddaya corresponds in most points to which the following obser 
vations extend, is written in a character derived in form and system 
from the -Nagart, but rejecting many of the letters of the latter and 
permuting others in a very corrupt but uniform mode: the more pro- 
