The first book of the Hitopadesa ; containing the Sanskrit text with interlinear transliteration, grammatical analysis, and English translation

MAX MULLER'SHANDBOOKSFORTHE STUDY OF SANSKRITTHE HITOPADESA.BOOK I.rHURPROBSTHAIN,antal Bookseller,Tin-:FIEST BOOK OF THE HITOPADESA:CONTAININGTHE SANSKRIT TEXT,INTERLINEAR GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS,TRANSLITERATION,AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION.SECOND EDITIONLONDONAND CO.LONGMANS, GREEN,1884.M-\2,1PREFACE.A SERIES of Handbooks for the of Sanskrit seems to be atstudy requiredthe moment two classes of readers those as candidatespresent ;by by who,for the Indian Civil are anxious to that amount ofService, acquire familiaritywith the and literature of the classical of which isgrammar language India,not useful for an honourable at the butonly acquitment public examinations,serves as the best foundation for the of the vernacu-subsequent study spokenlars and that number of; scholars who wish to anby steadily increasing gainof a which is the to theelementary, yet accurate, knowledge language keysecrets of Comparative Philology.There no lack of books inis, for those who makeindeed, EnglishSanskrit the of their life and even continental scholars who wish tostudy ;a sound aud of the ancient and litera-acquire profound knowledge languageture of must still have recourse to the masterworks ofIndia, scholarsEnglishsuch as and Wilson. The first volume of Colebrooke'sColebrooke, Prinsep,Sanskrit is a monument ofGrammar, published sixty years ago, Englishwhich has never beenscholarship surpassed subsequent Grammar,by anywhether in or French. Professor ...