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WS2byቲን ̆ মহাত্মা রাজা রামমোহন রায়ের জীবনচরিত have been for ages a lamentable check to the diffusion of knowledge, and the learning concealed under this almost impervious veil, is far from sufficient to reward the labour of acquiring it. But if it were thought necessary to perpetuatic this language for the sake of the portion of valuable information it contains, this might be much more easily accomplished, by other mcans than the establishment of a new Sanskrit College, for there lhavc bcem always and are now numcrous profcs sors of Sanskrit in the different parts of thc country engaged in teaching this languagc as well as the other branches of literature which arc to be the olbject of the new scminary. The refore, tlhcir mot c diligcnt cultivation, if desirable, would be effectually promoted, by holding out premiums and granting cc tain allowance to their most emncnt professors, who ) hav, e alrcady undertaken on their owl account to teach them, and would by such rcwards be stimulated to still g1 catcr cxcrtion. Ifrom the sic considerations, as tilhc sum sct apart for the instruction of thc nativcs of India was intended by the Government in England for thc improvement of its Indian subjects, I beg cave to state, with due deference to your Lordship's Cxaltcol situation, that if thc plan now adopted be followed, it will complctely defeat the object propos cd, since mo improvement can bc cXpcctcd from inducing young men to con suum C a dozen of y Cars of the most valuable period of thcil livcs in acquiring the nicetics of Baikarana or Sanskrit Grammar. For instance, in learning to discuss such points as the following ; li hada signifying to Cat, li hadať 1 hic or lhe or it eats; query; whethcr docS shadafi takcn as a whole conveys the meaning he, she or it cats, or are separate parts of this meaning convevcd by distinction of the words. As if in the English language it wore asked, how much mcaning is therc in the eat and how much in the s? And is the whole meaning of the word conweved bv. these two portions of it distinctly or by them taken jointly P Neither can much improvement arisc from such