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PREFACE
assisting those who may be desirous of studying the Language
spoken in the Mahratta states. The author, though he has la-
boured to make it as complete as possible, is sensible that
be has left much for future writers in this department to
add, and perhaps, to correct; and should he see some one more
able, improving on what he has begun, it will afford him
genuine satisfaction.
It would be ungrateful, not to mention the assistance which
the Author has received from Vidyanatha, the chief Mahrat-
ta Pundit in the College of Fort William. As no printed
work of this kind existed till Dr. Drummond of Bombay, very
lately, published his Grammar and Glossary of Mahratta and
Gujerattee, which however was not published till this work
was nearly printed off, there was no possibility of the writer's
availing himself of any collateral helps therein ; had such
existed he should hav« thought it a duty he owed to the pub-
lic, to have derived all the assistance it was possible from them.
For the, sake of conciseness, the author has endeavoured
to condense the meaning of each word as much as possible,
as well as to avoid the use of synonymous words in explain
