৩৮৮ মহাত্মা রাজা রামমোহন রায়ের জীবনচরিত। lamentable check to the diffusion of knowledge, and the learning concealed under this almost impervious veil, is far from sufficient to reward the labour of acquiring it. But if it were thought necessary to purpetuate this language for the sake of the portion of valuable information it contains, this might be much more easily accomplished, by other means than the establishment of a new Sanscrit College, for there have been always and are now numerous professors of Sanskrit in the different parts of the country engaged in teaching this language as well as the other branches of literature which are to be the object of the new seminary. Therefore, their more diligent cultivation, if desirable, would be effectually promoted, by holding out premiums and granting certain allowance to their most eminent professors, who have already undertaken on their own account to teach them, and would by such rewards be stimulated to still greater exertion. From these considerations, as the sum set apart for the instruction of the natives of India was intended by the Government in England for the improvement of its Indian subjects, I beg leave to state, with due deference to your Lordship's exalted situation, that if the plan now adopted be followed, it will completely defeat the object proposed, since no improvement can be expected from inducing young men to consume a dozen of years of the most valuable period of their lives in acquiring the niceties of Balkarana or Sanskrit Grammer. For instance, in learning to discuss such points as the folloing; khada signifying to eat, khudati he or she or it eats; query; whether does khadati taken as a whole conveys the meaning he, she or it eats, or are separate parts of this meaning conveyed by distinction of the words. As if in the English language it were asked, how much meaning is there in the eat and how much in the s? And is the whole meaning of the word conveyed by these two portions of it distinctly or by them taken jointly? Neither can much improvement arise from such speculations a the following which are the themes suggested by the Vedanta" what manner is the soul absorbed in the Deity? What real"
