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iv While adapting the Roman alphabet to represent Indian words, I have distinguished long vowels by a maeron, italised, t, d, n to represent the non-dental sounds, and re to represent the peculiar Sanskrit vowel. The letters j i denotes the peculiar pelatal compound of frequent occurrence in Sanskrit words. I have avoided all other niceties. In the case of some words which have already become English I have given the current English spelling.

My sincere thanks are due to Professor Lanman of Harvard and Professor Hopkins of Yale, for their perusal of the manuscript and for some very valuable suggestions. I should also thank Messrs. J. B. Lyon & Co. for their careful typography, and Mr. Henry C. Hasbrouck of Troy, N. Y., for going over the proofs.

September '09.