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Rh a piece of lexicography it stands out as a speciman of accurate scholarship and painstaking research

Schulze, the Danish missionary was the first European to make a thorough study of the Telugu language. A Telugu grammar was printed in 1807. The work of the Morris brothers needs also to be specially noted. A D. Campbell's “A Grammar of the Telugu language, commonly termed the Gentoo" was acquired for publication by the East India Company in 1813 and actually published in 1819. It ran into three editions, “The Telugu and English dictionary" by Morris was published in 1835. To the Telugus, the work of Charles Philph Brown is of lasting value. His translation of Vemana's verses brought him into prominence and was followed by his “An analysis of Telugu Prosedy” with an explanation of the Sanskrit system of metres for which the Company granted him an honorarium of 1000