Pischell resides, and to this eminent young Savant we owe not only a good critical edition of the Sakuntala (the Bengali recension for the first time in Europe, butälso some. valuable works on the Prakrit:t. I say that we should make presents for, in the first place, it is necessary, that wo should, in some way, shew these great men that we knew how to appreciate gratefully the valuable work they have done for our country and then it would be hard to expect (}erinan professors of Oriental pliilology to pay for such things. In general the German professors who probably do the 1a05 laborious work for Science in Europe, are the most ill paid of all. Even the Russian Pro jessors of the Oriental Faculty, who know so little of what they teach or talk about, are better paíd, not te say anything of the French «r the English. While the German Protessors, of Medicine, Jurisprudence, Theology and the Physical Sciences make up this lack of their pay by the contributions of their Philology, espccially of ()rieutal and ati]] more vd to poor living and hnrd work and matu, rally finding it difficult to lay out much for taanuscripts and the like, so essential to their If inela like Weber or All investigations. trecht had adequate means, how gladly would they not have undertaken voyages, into India as Cultius and Mommsen into Greece and Italy and the results of such voyages it is ‘sasy, to conceiye, Such voyages ilougurate quite new epochs in the History of Indian Antiquities. Living amongst the greater part of their lives—acquainting themselves more intimately with the rites and the ceremonies the manners and customs of the , actual Hindus who are the descendents, though very degenciate descendants, of the great Aryans who conquered “the Land of the Five Streams,” is it not possible that they unight land into conclusions about the past History of our country far juster—far more approching to truth tha', they have hitherto been able to do simply with the help of a few . hundreds of very ill-preserved manuscripts | and oi equally ill-decipherable inscriptions? The present helps us to cxplain the Past as the Past the Present. If then we have any genuine interesołor the past of our couno, তত্ত্বৰোধিনী পত্রিক । might :
- गभग ७rहड इहेघ्र नूठन श्रां१िष क्लिग्न छाब le itself, secing the site hich tl fধ জ্ঞানেৰ উপকার সাধন করা কর্তব্য । people itself, secing the sites on which the i ara :it: 7: o sastr language and the literature gradually deve- বাবু শান্তিপুরের হস্তলিখি ত গ্রন্থ সম্বন্ধে যাহা বলিয়া loped themselves which have occupied the
in the beginning of this century, we should be prepared to bear the east as well as the , trouble of all that I have indicated. . We ". should call on all the chief Rajahs and Maharajahs, on all rich merchants and capitalists. to contributo to this great end which has: even far greator importance for the future development of our Nation as a Nation than the occasional munificent charities for which our Hindu princes rich men are so eminent. We cannot expect Government to do every thing for us. Government pays for | the Asiatic Society of Bengal, for Dr. Rajeu. dra Lal for the publication of his works and those of his co-adjutors. It is for us, for private Hindu exertions, to supplement the efforts of Government in a cause which is ours in every sense of the word. How, this is to be done. I leave you to arrange. I have indicated the necessity of the case. 1 leave it to you and our other friends to 廳 speculate on the practical steps that might generally large number of auditors, those of be taken to compass this end in all its various o phases and rainifications, probnbly of Sanskrii, Philology, have com- ! paratively very few auditors and so are doom 醬 举 聯 Hoping this will find you all right, I am in respectful affection, N. K. CHATToPADHAYAYA. खाभग्नां नि/*कालु वातूब ४छांत झनरगन्न भट्टि ज़ অমুমোদন কবি, কিন্তু কেবল আমাদিগের মঙ্গোপকারসাধক জৰ্ম্মন মহোদয়দিগকে সাহায্য করিয়া আমাদিগের্জ ক্ষান্ত থাকা উচিত হয় না। উল্লিখিত হস্তলিখিত গ্রন্থ সকল অবলম্বন পূর্বক স্বাধীন নিশি কান্ত ছেন তfদ্বযয়ে আমরা ডাক্তার রাজেঞ্জলাল মিত্র মহাশয় দ্বার। জ্ঞা চইলাম যে যে ভট্টাচার্য্য মহাশয় উষ্ণ গ্রন্থের অধিকারী তিনি ঐন্ধপ সহস্র গ্রন্থের ও অধিধারী। তিনি ঐ গ্রন্থ গুলি স্বপুরের ন্যায় শ্লেখ করেন, এক দিনের জন্য ছাড়িতে চাহেন না । এই জন্য সে সকল গ্রন্থ পাওয়া সুকঠিন। তাছাদের প্রতিলিপি মাত্র পাওয়া যাইতে পারে। বিজ্ঞাপন । .." 3. আগামী هن কীৰ্ত্তিক রবিবার বেছালা ব্রাহ্ম সমাজের সপ্তবিংশ সাম্বৎসরিক উৎসবে অপরাঙ্ক ऊिंमश्वकैोडू পরে ব্রাহ্মধর্থের পারায়ণ হইবে এবং if we would really have clear definite idensif } * sisi * ਬਾਝੋਂ সময়ে ব্রহ্মোপাসনা হইবেক । what our great aloestors once actually were } ॐौधैब्रांभ চট্টোপাধ্যায় o, . so that ye mighi' also as prgudiyipjiti* dü£ I, , : * م . towards them in our days of degradationodol ....... সম্পাদক । dependence (for ፥ & .worse days are yet: ko: f* § وم. به وي m Tলম্বর ক্ষপ কলিগাদ ৯৮, কাধিক পৰিয়ার h i
