Nalopákhyánam : Story of Nala / an episode of the Mahábhárata: the Sanskrit text, with a copious vocabulary, grammatical analysis, and introduction by Monier Williams. The metrical translation by the Very Reverend Henry Hart Milman.

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1860
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Credit: Nalopákhyánam : Story of Nala / an episode of the Mahábhárata: the Sanskrit text, with a copious vocabulary, grammatical analysis, and introduction by Monier Williams. The metrical translation by the Very Reverend Henry Hart Milman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEEFAOE, The “ Stoey of Nala,” the simplest and one of the most beautiful of Sanskrit poems, is already known to the English public through the former version of Dean Milman’s metrical translation, and to Sanskrit scholars through Professor Bopp’s recension of the text printed in Germany. It becomes my duty, therefore, to direct attention to the distinctive features of the following edi¬ tion, and the circumstances which have led to its pub¬ lication. The Sanskrit Grammar published by me in 1846, of Avhich the second edition has the advantage, like the present volume, of the patronage of the Delegates of the Oxford University Press, being now generally used by English students of the language, required a suitable reading-book as a companion, printed on a similar plan, and furnished with references to the grammatical rules and a full vocabulary. Three reading-books have been already published in this country, namely, the Hitopadesa, the Selections from the Maha-bhdrata, and the Megha-diita-^all edited by Professor Francis Johnson. Others have appeared on the Continent: but as all of them conform more or less to the native sys¬ tem of teaching, they are not adapted to English scholars who have worked their way through a Grammar lilce mine, which introduces an English element into Sanskrit stu¬ dies. Nor is the style of these books suited to students just feeling their way in Sanskrit syntax. Hitherto the a %