পাতা:সাহিত্য-সাধক-চরিতমালা দ্বিতীয় খণ্ড.djvu/২১৩

t স্বাক্ষাকাঙ্ক দেয় indigenous school masters to use them, pledging himself there should not be introduced any religious matter therein : as particularised in the first and fourth reports of the Calcutta School Society. He has for many years, been engaged in the compilation of a &anscrit dictionary, entitled Sabada-Kaipadruma in imitation of the Encyclopædia Britannica of which three volumes have since been issued from the press, containing nearly 3.000 Quarto pages, and it will take some years more to complete the work. An account of this dictionary may be found in the Second Report of the Calcutta School Book Society, page 50 ; Friend of India of 1820, N. I. page 140 : Perface to Dr. H. H. Wilson's Sanscrit and English dictionary, edition 1. page 38; as well as in the perface to the Revd. W. Morton's Bengali and English dictionary, page 6. The author has received the thanks and appreciation of those learned Europeans and Natives to whom he presented copies of the work, for which applications are daily made to him from different quarters. Radhakanta Deb was favoured with Diploma, dated May 17th 1828, from the Royal Asiatic Society, in testimony of the valuable information they received from him, and s very kind letter from Sir Alexander Johnston, knight, Chairman of the Society, bearing date the 4th July 1828, stating in the concluding part thereof, that "I shall, by the present opportunity, forward to the Governor General of India, a copy of the enclosed resolution, in order that, he may be aware of the high respect which the Society entertains for your talents, and that he msy promote, by such weans as he may think proper, the literary pursnits in woh you are engaged." Radhakanta has lately translated into English an extract from a Horticultural work in Persian, and transmitted it to the Royal Asiatic Society on the 3rd -- December 1832. At the request of the Native community, he prepared addresses in the English, Bengali and Persian languages, on