ON RULES FOR FINDING WORDS IN THE DICTIONARY. 291
were present. In such cases, we should be in error, were we to condemn his statements as false.
The rules here given may facilitate the translation of Telugu into English, but let us not imagine that translating English into Telugu will be an easy undertaking.
RULES FOR FINDING WORDS IN THE DICTIONARY.
In the Telugu Dictionary, Sanscrit words we easily found as they retain one uniform mode of spelling. Telugu words admit many changes. First as to vowels —The compound vowels ai and au are at pleasure written as one or as two syllables. Thus 31 paior <6t») payi kaugili or right) cavugili an embrace.
In the Dictionary, the monosyllabic form, 2- is retained and ^)o», 5"$. are excluded. Each form is equally good: but the monosyllabic form is preferable because used in all words whether Sanscrit or Telugu: while the other form is not so generally used.
The remainder is given under Alphabet.
END OF THE GRAMMAR.
