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- Sir William Jones has spoken of the mystic obscurity in which the sulras or metrical Aphorisms of Sanskrit Grammar are involved. The treatises written in Sanscrit verse by Nannaya, and his commentators, on Telugu Grammar, are equally abstruse, and the rules on EDI. (Chap. LXXVI1,) are peculiarly intricate. Every Telugu rule is laboriously deduced from a Sanscrit canon; the connection of which with the Telugu language, is not easily discernible. That arrangement is, to an English enquirer, illogical, and were Nannaya and his laborious commentators translated into plain English, the rules would still remain nearly unavailable. Happily for the English reader, Mr. Campbell's Telugu Grammar contains all the more useful rules; he has excluded much that was unprofitable, and I have yet further abridged the old rules while I have added many that are new.
The Grammar written by Nannaia Bhatta (who is also called Annaparyulu fc» jS^j^jjfigtw) has the title ' Andhra Sabda Chintamani,' Or, The Etymological Standard. It passes over, with very brief notice, those niceties regarding ardha Undu, and tacata Btp/.a in which modern pedants waste all their strength.
