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to publish some of the principal pieces of Kdwi literature on Bail, 
and to begin with the Ramayana and the Parvas. 
Every one whp with us deplores the Joss of the knowledge of a 
language which formed itself in earlier ages on Java, and in which 
the fullness of pure Sanskrit was interwoven with the language of 
the inhabitants; in which the celebrated ancient literature of the con¬ 
tinent of India was appropriated by the genius and the skill of the 
hiaduised Javanese, wrought in the national mould, and adorned 
with new beautico ; in which the inhabitants of the island, when they 
had, after the lapse of some ages, been elevated by Indian civilization 
and development, impressively imaged and characterised themselves ; 
every one, who places all this before his mind, will rejoice with us 
In the results of this undertaking that have already been attained. 
Arid Islam has on Java expelled and destroyed the literary and poe¬ 
tical life of India, but on Bali we find tbe key that will enable us to 
penetrate the knowledge of this life as it once animated the Javanese. 
Slav then these researches be further crowned with a rich harvest 
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in furthering the knowledge of the Archipelago, to the benefit of 
science and the renown of Netherlands, 
