Bhasha Bhaskar Arthat Hindi Bhasha ka Vyakaran

Author(s): Ethrington Padri
Publisher: Ethrington Padri

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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
"The Student's Grammar of the Hindi Language," published by me last year, was reviewed by the Director of Public Instruction, North-Western Provinces, and recommended to Government for a prize. "Being a work in the English language, it hardly comes within the scope of the Prize Notification, which relates only to vernacular literature;" but His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor suggested that the book, if put into a form suitable for use in vernacular education, "would be a valuable contribution to the vernacular literature, and, as such, a fit subject for a prize "* In accordance with this suggestion, the little book in the hands of the reader was prepared.
Being designed for Native youth, this is not a mere translation of the "Student's Hindi Grammar," which would not have served the purpose, that book being adapted to the wants of Europeans having no knowledge of the Indian dialects. In the following pages the reader will find much that is new, as regards both matter and arrangement, in every chapter, especially in the treatment of the noun and the verb. I have taken advantage of the criticism of scholars who reviewed the former book here and in England, and have felt it necessary to omit or to modify some points that I formerly held as correct.
ral instances I have ventured to differ from well-known Hindi scholars; but in no case hastily, or without being, as I supposed, justified by what seemed to me to be the facts of the case.
I have read whatever came in my way that seemed likely to aid me in the preparation of the book, and have made use of whatever promised to afford help to Native students in acquiring a competent knowledge of the structure of their mother-tongue. I am in a great measure indebted to the advice and suggestions of the accomplished Pandit Vishan Datt, who prepared the greater part of the last chapter and revised the entire book with me.
BENARES, October, 1871,
W. ETHERINGTON.
A prize of five hundred rupees was awarded to the author on the appearance of the first edtion of this book. The arpyright of this second and improved edition has been purchased by Government.
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