Excerpt from The Prema-Sagara, or Ocean of Love: Being a Literal Translation of the Hindi Text of Lallu Lal Kavi as Edited by the Late Professor Eastwick, Fully Annotated and Explained Grammatically, Idiomatically and Exegetically by Frederic Pincott (Member of the Royal Asiatic Society) Professor Eastwick made his translation expressly for the use of learners, and states in his Preface that every endeavour has been used to make it as literal as possible, without rendering it altogether unintelligible. A comparison between translation and text, however, fails to support this claim for the Professor constantly departs from the form of his text for the purpose of Imparting a quaintness to his English rendering, and sometimes apparently for no other object than that of presenting the ideas in a manner differing from that of Captain Hollings. Here and there, however, perhaps accidentally, he agrees with the Captain in omitting entire sentences, which are nevertheless found in his own Hindi text. Professor Eastwick also occasionally alters ideas which may have been deemed inelegant, such as changing an umbrella into a canopy, and a cuckoo into a bird. 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.