The Baitâl Pachchisi; Or, The Twenty-Five Tales of a Sprite: Translated From the Hindi Text of Dr. Duncan Forbes

Platts, John T. (John Thompson) · 1825

The English translation of these tales has been made by special request, to meet repeated demands for a translation of the text as edited by the late Dr. Duncan Forbes. The aim of the Translator has been to produce a work which would enable the student to study the original with facility and accuracy. It being considered that few save students who are compelled to study the Hindi original would be likely to peruse the work, the translation has been made as literal as it was possible to make it without doing unpardonable violence to English idiom. All difficulties have been boldly, if not successfully, met; and explanatory and other notes have been added, wherever the text appeared to call fo…

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