Bālāvatāra (1935 Translation)
A translation into English, originally edited and translated by the late Mahamahopadhyaya Dr. Satischandra Vidyabhusana and the late Samana Punnananda Swami, revised and recast (with additional matter) by Sailendranath Mitra, M.A., Lecturer, Calcutta University, published by the University of Calcutta (1935)
An elementary Pali Grammar abridged for
the Under-graduate Course
ORIGINALLY EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY
The late Mahamahopadhyaya
Dr. SATISCHANDRA VIDYABHUSANA
AND
The late Samana
PUNNANANDA SWAMI
REVISED AND RECAST
(With additional matter)
BY
SAILENDRANATH MITRA, M.A.
LECTURER, CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY
PUBLISHED BY THE
UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA
1935
PRINTED BY BHUPENDRALAL BANERJEE
AT THE CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY PRESS, SENATE HOUSE, CALCUTTA
Reg. No 706B. - June, 1935 - A.
PREFACE
Section titled “PREFACE”The Bālāvatāra, originally edited for use in the upper classes of High English Schools by the late Mahamahopadhyaya Dr. Satischandra Vidyabhusana and the late Samana Punnananda Swami, has been revised and recast in the present edition. The sutras of the Nāmakanda have been omitted altogether because they often proved boring to the beginner, but the matter in that section has been re-shuffled and conveniently arranged. New topics — Samāsa, Kāraka and Vibhatti-bheda — have been added for the simple reason that they are essential at the preliminary stage. As Vernacular has been made the medium of instruction for the Matriculation Examination in subjects other than English, I have deemed it desirable to explain the sutras in Bengali without, however, omitting the old exposition in English. Considerable additions have been made to the illustrations, for which I have drawn very largely upon Kaccāyana.
A word of explanation is, I believe, necessary in regard to the Case (Vibhatti). According to indigenous grammarians, the Vibhattis are seven, excluding the Ālapana, which in English grammar is distinguished as a Case, i.e., the Case of Address. In order, however, not to confound the beginner (whose knowledge of English grammar is presupposed) by stating at the outset that the Vocative is not regarded as an independent case, I have preferred, as will be seen at page 31, to count the cases as eight (including the Vocative), leaving the student’s notion to be gradually cleared as he reaches the sections on Kāraka and Vibhatti-bheda.
My thanks are due to Mr. Atulchandra Ghatak, M.A., Superintendent of the University Press, for the ready assistance he has given in seeing the book through the press.
SAILENDRANATH MITRA
SENATE HOUSE:
Calcutta,
The Ist June, 1935.