mittees there were representatives from the Educational Departments of Bengal, the Punjab, the Canto Provinces and the United Provinces In this connection, I had to study and make myself families with the materials for Scientific Terminology in the vernaculars of the Presidencies mentioned above.
4 The section of the Scientific Terminology which forms an important feature at my Dictionary, is a fourth attempt in this direction, and therefore, perhaps, an improvement upon its predecessors, more wide in scope, and more up-to-date in results I feel that at least for 20 years to come, there will be no need of a now Anglo-Vernacular Scientific Lexicon, till new materials accumulate, now needs arise, and the results, embodied in my Dictionary, are carried into the main stream of the vernaculars of the people.
Services of Sanskrit indispensable to the Modern Vernaculars of India.
The services of Sanskrit are indispensable to the modern vernaculars of India for fixing now equivalents for corresponding English scientific terms of Higher Mathematics, Astronomy, Physios, Chemistry, Zoology, Botany, Biology, Geology, Physiology, Anatomy, Surgery, do. There are four reasons for this.
Reason No. 1.-The modern vernaculars of India are poor in prefixes suffixes and inflexions, -elements necessary to form new short words. Sanskrit is rich in these elements and therefore, most fitted for the formation of now words to express now.ideas of such of the Western Sciences, as, Botany, Physios, Chemistry, &c.
{{text-indent|2em|Reason No. II.-In Scientific Literature, the main or the leading words of a science must be plastic. They can then be made to easily yield a large number of derivatives and com. pound words, simply by the addition of suffixes and prefixes or by slight inflexional change This plasticity Sanskrit words possess. Take the word Electricity; from it, by slight changes, MA get electric, electrify, electrometer, electroscope, and electrolysis; so we must for a vernacular equivalent for electricity, which, by slight changes, will yield appropriate vernacular equivalent for electric, electrify, &c., and such & vernacular equivalent will be a Sanskrit word only. Sanskrit words, thus newly coined and fixed, should be subjected to the laws of the grammares of each of the modern vernaculars of India and will then appear as the old denizens of each of these languages.
The Editorial Committee for this work consisted of the following:-(1) Baba Bhagwan Das, M. A. (2) Baba Bhagayati Sahay, M. A., B. L. (3) Babu Durga Prasad, B A. (4) Dr. Gaoganath Jha, M. A. LL. D. (5) Lala Khashiram, M. A. (6) Prof. N. B. Ranade, B. A. (7) Mabamahopadhyaya Pandit Sudbakar Derivedi (8) Baba Syam Sundor Day, B. A. (9) Babu Thakur Prasad and (10) Pandit Vinayak Rao.
Useful hints were sent by the following gentlemen to improve the original tentative terminologies:-(1) Central Hindu College, Benares. (3) Babu Badri Pandit A. P. Dwivedi, Benares. (2) Babu Ashutosh Chatterji, Central Hindu College, Bensres w Whapur. (5) Pandit Bal Mukund Prohit, Mandle. (6) Pandit Chandra Chhatisgarh, Raipur. (8) Babu Hire Lal, B. A., Garetteer Dhar Sharma, B. A. (7) Pandit Gappatlal Chobe, Chhatisgarh, Raipar. (8) Babu Hira M.A. (10) Prof. (Sir ) J. C. Bose, M. A., D. Sc. (11) Prof. Office, Nagpur. (9) Babu Indra Narayan Siob, M. a. (10) Prof. (Bir) J. C. Bose (2) Lala Jai Ram, M. A., Government College, Lahore (18) Pandit Unwalla, M. A., Samaldas College. (12) Lala Jai Ram, M. A., Government a Denait Kanbya Lal Guru, M. a. (16) Proi. Dole, m. A., L. C. E. (16) Kamalakar Dube, M. A. (14) Pandit Kanbya Lal Guru, M. A. (15) Prot. Dol Bahn Markandeya Prasad Bhattacharyaji. (17) Dr. Moghadath Bannerji, Bodaros (18) (10) Pandit. Nand Lal Dabe, Raipur. (20) Dr. P. C. Roy, M. A., D. So.. Calon Jabbalpore (21) Paodit Rajaram Panday, aampree. () in B. A., Benares. (25) Pandit Ramrao Rajaram Chincholkor (24) Pandit Rama Narayan Misbra, B. A., Benares. (26) Pandit Ramrao Raia Pandit Sadashiv Jairam, M. A., Jabbalpore. (27) Mr. S. V. Kadam. B Institution, Jabbalporo. (29) Pandit Sbridbar Pathak, Allshehe Secretariat, Nagpur. (31) Pandit S. B. Misbra, B. A., Luo (33) Baby Sarada Charan Chakravarti, B. A., Government College Sangar. ath Bannerji, Benares (18) Lala Munshi Lal, M. A., Labora Roy, M. A., D. 8o., Calcatta. (21) Pandit Parass Ram, 3) Prof. Ramendra Sunder Trivedi, M. A., Caloutta. Mr. S. V. Kadam, Baroda (28) Lala Shiva Bharos, Training idher Pathak, Allahabad. (30) Pandit Shriram Bhaskar, Government Misbra, B. A., Lucknow, (32) Pandit Suraj Narayan, B. A., Bepared 3. A., Government College, Bonares, and (34) Pandit Vishnu Shestree,Bangar
