Contributions to Oriental Literature, or the Leisure Hours, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Contributions to Oriental Literature, or the Leisure Hours, Vol. 1 of 2 It was not my wish to present the public with a volume containing my writings in poetry and prose. But, soon after the appearance of the History of the Sinhalese language, embodied in my Introduction to the Sidat Sangare't, published by me in 1852, a controversy arose regarding some of my remarks on the inconsiderate criticism of the late lamented Dhammaratana, the renowned poet of Miripenna, on the Poem entitled The ganga-rohana, from which selections had been inserted in the Grammar That controve'rsy awakened a spirit of inquiry previously unknown in Ceylon, and roused the dormant powers of a number of native scholars, who had been unknown to me, and had been content to re main buried in the obscurity and seclusion of their village Pansalas. With many of them I entered into correspondence. From some I obtained many valuable opinions. To others, who came forward to congratulate me, generally on what little success I had achieved, and to express their approbation of the Opinions I had broached on the subject of the contro versy, courtesy at least demanded that I should reply. Whilst these writings thus increased the bulk of the mss. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.