________________ (v) The book, if introduced in Arts Colleges and the Sanskrit Vidyalayas, is bound to give a fresh impetus to Sanskrit studies and raise the standard of efficiency of the student. It will not only serve as a guide to Sanskrit translation but also as a mirror to Sanskrit usage. If the learned teachers of Sanskrit and other scholars of the language appreciate this work as a contribution, howso. ever humble, to a critical study of Sanskrit, I shall consider my labours amply repaid. If after a careful study of the book they find that certain staternents made by me are open to question, they would kindly intimate me all such cases and I shall take the very first opportunity to elucidate my view-point. D, A, V. College AMBALA 12th March, 1950 Charu Deva Shastri PREFACE ( Second Adition ) For purposes of the present edition, the book has been thoroughly revised, improved and enlarged. Some 150 sentences have been added to Section IV. As we said in the Preface to the First Edition : "Our Chief aim has been to instruct the student in the true idiom of Sanskrit," the length of a sentence has never been a consideration with us. However small it may be, a sentence finds a place in the book, if its Sanskrit rendering has to teach a particular turn of
