342 F. S. Growso —A Metrical Version of the Brithiraj Hasan. [No. 4, 
Vedas, it just mentions by name the Puranas, the Bamayana and the five 
Maha-kavyas ; when the poet is stopped hy his wife, who desires to have 
the Puranas enumerated more in detail. In the seventh line, I prefer the 
alternative reading Brahma uclidri to Brahmanda chari , which the editor 
has adopted; and I translate £ then spake Brahma, the visible form of 
Brahm,’ which appears to me a very simple and intelligible form of expres¬ 
sion. 
Before concluding this article, it may he interesting to adduce a 
specimen of a genuine native commentary on Chand : accordingly, I append a 
paraphrase of the first four lines of invocation, written hy Pandit Makhan 
Misr, a Sarasvat Brahman, resident in Mathura, who has the largest library 
of Sanskrit MSS., and is one of the best-read scholars in that city of 
Sanskritists. 
i 
•W7TX q<f¥q W q\fqq qHq 37^ WRf 
qnl* qq q\f%q f*r*r^r % 
q7q}q ^7*7 qWrft iNf 37^ % fapg qff%q 
V7^«TqT7T % fqjT % ^7^ q»f%q ^T^TTf^ ^77 J1%3T V q7V9 
q*f¥q >47W qrt %’ ^ q^qrft q»f%q 3T^7q;qqft qnM? 
^7#t ^T7 %' ^7qq Ijq 3T^qff fqfn 
3T^ % <73737*7 ^37 ^737 <7T % %7 *7 frTsfrT qifNq fqq^ fqq 7%<T 
qjq f ^ %' ^ qffqq q7q «T7fi q<f%q qgfu sroq- 
%qTV %' l^cT7^ ^7 Wl€t #7 qqrq CTT^ qq 
^7qq %’ qui %qr qrc <tt^ qr^?; qr tqvqx qrf^q 
^Tfq;qi ^ ottw q*f%q i7"qq?if^q» ^ qffqqrq ^^irq * 773 ? ^*7 orq 
¥4<t<* 7 %’ qq c ?x q»f%q qqqr % q^ qrf%q q^cqr ^qq7T % qjqq qrr%q 
fq^q ^ n \ ii 
The above is a good illustration of the extreme difficulty which really 
learned Hindus, whether they come from the east or the west of India, 
find at the present day in understanding their own vernacular in its earliest 
form. Their suggestions as to the train of ideas, traditional usage, &c., are 
often valuable ; but their etymological explanation of particular words is 
frequently of the wildest and always requires confirmation. Hence the Eng¬ 
lish editor of Chand must in the main depend on his own resources and 
stand or fall hy himself. 
