Mopern ImiraTion oF THE VEDAS, &c. 38 
version of this extract to the end ef the invocation, bears but little resem- 
blance to the original, as a comparison of the two last lines with the 
translation will sufficiently demonstrate, 
Parééa paramdnanda saranda gata vatsala. 
O high Lord! O pre-eminently happy, O merciful to those taking 
refuge with thee! 
£6 TY} est henreux et heureux par ]ui mesme, il est enfin le comble de 
‘6 toutes perfections et au dessus de toutes nos conndissances.”” 
Trdhi mam carund sindho muctidd ya namastute’.. 
Deliver me, Osea of mercy! for the cake of beatitude reverence to thee! 
86 @est au diew qui a pour ceux qui l’envoquent la tendresse d’un 
§6 vray pere que j’offre mes adorations et mes hommages.”® 
Though the turn given to the last may be conformable to French . 
taste, it js scarcely possible that the translation of these verses could have 
proceeded from the pen of the author of the original.—The concluding 
sentence of this part of the translation ° Et cest par la que je commence 
s6 le livre,?? &c, is entirely wanting in the Sanscrit. 
This comparison, however, though the selection of the passage on 
which itis founded was entirely fortuitous, certainly affords a less favor- 
able idea of the manner in which the translation is executed, than in 
general it deserves: I subjoin, therefore, an extract from the ‘* Chame 
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