Excerpt from A Dictionary in Hindi and English: Compiled From Approved Authorities About five thousand new words in all have been added, and in order to compen sate t'or the increase by a reduction in needless matter, so as not to enhance the price of the book, the equivalents of the Hindi forms in Roman Character have been omitted, as being of little or no use to a student who has once mastered the value of the Hindi letters, which unlike those in English are constant in pronunciation and spoken as they are written. 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.