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इन्दुशर्मा for Egeus, वसन्त for Lysander मकरन्द for Dennet rius, प्रमोद for Philostrate, धान्यक for Quince, अधरक for Bottom, धनक for Snug, वसुपालित for Flute राजस for Snout, साधक for Staveling, कनकलेखा for Hippolyta, कौमुदी for Hermia, सौदामिनी for Helena, प्रदोष for Oberon, निम्बवती for Titania, प्रमोह for Puck or Robin good fellow जयसेना, धूमिनी, | विजया and गोमिनी for Peaseblossonm, Mustardseed, Cobweb and Moth respectively. I trust that scholars will see some appropriateness in several of the names I have adopted.
I sincerely hope that this essay of mine may induce abler scholars to take up the task, and, with far better success, introduce to the literatii of the East some of the most chaste and beautiful thoughts of the West.
I am greatly indebted to the Honorable A. Seshiah Sastriar Avrgal, C. S. I.Dewan-Regent of Pudukota. but for whose very kind patronage I should not have been able to bring out this work.
I thank my printers for the very neat style in which they have brought out the work.
24th February 1892. PUDUKOTA.
THE AUTHOR.
