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PREFACE Of the making of text books ou osanskrut there y no end and after all these fertile years of this 11dustry, one naturally besitates to add ones own handiwork to this truly bewildering output But I am heartened by the feeling that I have perhaps not gone quite the Same way that my predecessors have and the follow ng pages may, both in general design and detailed Work offer something which answ.crs specially the new needs of our fast changing times One of these IIePds Hay be particularly mentioned Sanskrit will henceforward be a mere optional subjec for the Matr_ulation candidates und the Lraze for A Science training being just now what it is, the greater number of our boys will even in their class WIll bid farewel to the langunge that the ucents lov Ingly called the speech of the gods. Yet the value of a fair grounding im Sanskrit cannot be gannsaid of puts a Bengal into far Paser terms with his vertia cular and opens up to him a vast and Ilch heritage fron which uncountiel generaltıọns of huy racë lave drawn nourishment for their souls. It was worth while, therefore, to attempt “Reader which could be used in Class VIII and which would by itself carry the boys, far enough Linto the language for dI.