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 College, where the system of imparting instruction was more perfect. Besides, he said, there were plenty of paths open for the successful students of this school. There were good prospects even for him, who would aspire to a respectable situation. The post of Judge-Pandit (legal adviser to a District civil Judge on Hindu law) was reserved for those brilliant scholars who, after passing the course of training in the other branches of the Sanskrit Literature, also passed the Law-Committee examination.

Madhu Sudan delivered this advice in a most impressive manner, and Thakurdas, convinced of its propriety, approved of it. Pandit Gangadhar Tarkavagis was, at that time, one of the professors of Grammar in the Sanskrit College. Thakurdas consulted also the learned professor on the subject, and the latter was of the same opinion as Madhu Sudan. Ultimately, it was definitely settled that Isvar Chandra should be placed in the Sanskrit College.

Isvar Chandra was admitted into the the Sanskrit College on the first day of June, 1829. The chief aim of the College till then, and some time