पृष्ठम्:Laghu paniniyam vol1.djvu/११

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
IN preparing the Second Edition of the Laghupanini-
yam, special care has been taken to improve the
general get-up of the book. The many typographical
errors and inconsistencies which disfigured the First
Edition have also been rectified. My grateful acknowl-
edgements are due to the authorities of St. Joseph's
Industrial School Press, Trichinopoly, for the scrupulous
care that they have bestowed on every detail of printing.
The subject-matter too received a sort of general
revision when the proof-sheets passed through my hands.
Pânini's grammatical rules are based on the gryta
or the principle of generalisations restricted by excep-
tions. But it not infrequently happens that his genera-
lisations lose all their practical value on account of a
disproportionate quantity of the restricting element.
In such cases my method was to make a judicious selec-
tion from the never-ending series of exceptions and
counter-exceptions and to present to the beginner only
the particular cases a knowledge of which is indispen-
sable to a student who wishes to read through the stand-
ard works in the language. From the very nature of it,
such a selection cannot claim to be perfect or universally
acceptable. The alterations made in the body of the
text are accordingly very few and not very important,
and are merely of the nature of a replacement of a less
important sûtra by a more important one.
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