Appendix C. চিহ্ন যে শত্রু মস্তক তাহা আনিয়া ও আমি বৈরি বিনাশ করিয়াছি ইহা কহেন পরে চাচিকদেব নাই তন্নিমিত্তে প্রথমত চাচিকদেরের পুরস্কার কর্ত্তক । কহিলেন হে রাজকুমার আমার নিমিত্তে এ প্রকার কর্ত্তক নহে আমি কেন তোমায় শৌর্য্যের ফল লইয়া পরের উচ্ছিষ্টভোগী হইব । তাহা শুনিয়া নরসিংহদেব কহিলেন হে সত্যবীর চাচিকদেব তুমি সাধু তোমার এই সততা হেতুক বুঝিলাম যে তুমি পণ্ডিত এবং সতীপুত্র ও অতি প্রশসনীয় মহাশয় । তদনন্তর যবনেশ্বর ঐ দুই রাজপুত্রের পরস্পরালাপে হৃষ্টচিত্ত হইয়া দুই রাজকুমারের তুল্য পুরস্কার করিলন । URDU TRANSLATION. هین افلاطون كي وصيتون كي بيان مين افلاطون کہتا هي که خدا کو پہچان اور اسکی حق کو نگاہ رکھه * اور همیشه اپني همت تعلیم اور تعلم میں مصروف کر * اور اهل علم کي علم كي زيادتي کا امتحان نه كر * بلکه شر و فساد سي باز وهنا اختيار كر اور حق تعالي سي ايسي چيز مت مانگ که اسکي منفعت کي طرف زوال کي راه بلکه جو نیکیان که باقي رهتي هين انكي طلب كر هميشه بیدار ره که بديون کي بهت اور جو نکیا چاهئي اسي آرزو سي مت مانگ اور جان که بندي سي خدا کا انتقام لینا غضب کي طریق پر نہین بلکه بطریق تادیب اور تہذيب کي هي * اور زندگي پر قانع مت ره جب تک موت نه آوي * اور زندگاني کو بہتر مت جان مگر جب کسي چيز کي حاصل کر نيكا وسيله هو * خواب اور آسايش كي رغبت نکر مگر بعد اسکي جب تین چیز کا محاسبه آپ سي تو لي * ایک که که یهه تو تامل كري كه جس دن جو تو ني كيا هي تجهسي خطا سرزد هوئي هي يا نهين * که دوسري يهه سوچ که آج کچهه کام کیا هي يا نهين * تيسري يهه که کوئي كام تجهسي بسبب قصور كي ره گيا هي يا نهين * یاد کر که اس زندگي کي آگي تو کیا تھا اور بعد اسکي تو کیا ھوگا * اور کسی کو ایذا ندي كه عالم كي سب کام زوال اور تغیر کي مقام مين هين * بدبخت وہ شخص هي جو عاقبب كي ياد غافل رهي * اور گناه سي نچھو ئي اور اپني پو نجي اُس چيز سي جو تيري پاس نہو متكر * اور مستحقون كو نيكي پہنچا ني مين انكي سوال پر موقوف نركهه اور اسي مت جان جو لذت دنياوي سي خوش هو يا كسي مصيبت كي سبب جزع و فزع كري حكيم سي فائده اور همیشه موت کو یاد رکھه اور مردون سي عبرت پکڑ * اور خسیس آدمیون کو انکي بهت بي بات کرنی اور بغیر پوچهي جواب ديني سي پہچان * اور جان که شرير وهي شخص هي كه جسني شرارت اختيار كي هو * خوب سوچ کو بول اور کام کر * اور سب کا دوست رہ جلد غصي ره هو تا خفگي تيري خو نهو جاوي اور محتاج کی حاجت کل پر چھوڑ تو کیا جاني كل كيا هوگا * قيديون کي اعانت کر مگر جو خوي بد مین گرفتارر هي * جب تک دونونکي بات نه سمجهي كي انكي درميان حكم نه كر فقط قول هي مين حكيم نره بلكه قول و عمل دونو مين * اسلئي که حکمت قولي إس جهان مين رهي اور حکمت عملي اُس جہان تک پہنچي اور وهان باقي رهي * اور اگر نيكي كي لئي تو رنج كهينچي تو رنج نرهي پر نيكي رهي اور جو کسي بدي كي سبب تو لذت پاي تو لذت نرهي اور بدي ره جاي * اور اس دن کو یاد کر که تجهي پکارین اور تو بولني سي عاجز رهي کچهه نه سني اور کچهه نه كهي اور ياد بهي نه كرسكي WATTS WATTS ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MIND. Morning Paper. 1. Give a short account of the five methods described by Dr. Watts, of "improving the Mind in the knowledge of things." 2. What are the chief points requiring attention in learning a language? 3. What is meant by Memory: how does it differ from Judgment and Reasoning, and what are its uses? 4. Detail the particular rules laid down by Dr. Watts for the improvement of the Memory. Appendix C. Afternoon Paper. 5. "Some effects are found out by their causes, and some causes by their effects." Explain and illustrate the meaning of these. 6. Enumerate the advantages of reading as a means of improving the mind. 7. What is meant by study? Show that without it no one can really become learned or wise. 8. What general rules, according to Dr. Watts, ought to be observed in all debates or disputes intended to find out truth, or detect error? ORAL EXAMINATION. PROSE. Tuesday, September 23. He, whose mind is engaged by the acquisition or improvement of a fortune, not only escapes the insipidity of indifference, and the tediousness of inactivity, but gains enjoyments wholly unknown to those who live lazily on the toil of others; for life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy; he is always moving to a certain end, and when he has attained it, an end more distant invites him to a new pursuit. It does not, indeed, always happen, that diligence is fortunate; the wisest schemes are broken by unexpected accidents; the most constant perseverance sometimes toils through life without a recompence; but labour, though unsuccessful, is more eligible than idleness; he that prosecutes a lawful purpose by lawful means, acts always with the approbation of his own reason; he is animated through the course of his endeavours by an expectation which, though not certain, he knows to be just; and is at last comforted in his disappointment by the consciousness that he has not failed by his own fault. That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem; and what can any man infer in his own favour from a condition to which, however prosperous, he contributed nothing, and which the vilest and weakest of the species would have obtained by the same right, had he happened to be the son of the same father. To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next, is to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; and if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility. POETRY. When men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay; Their want of light and intellect supplied By sparks, absurdity strikes out of pride : Without the means of knowing right from wrong, Their nimble nonsense takes a shorter course; Appendix C. Their own defect invisible to them, And those the most, where neither has a right. N. B.-Each junior Scholar will in turn read and explain the above passages to the Examiner, who will frame such questions connected with the grammatical construction, meaning, allusions, or references contained in them as he may consider calculated to elicit the knowledge possessed by the pupil. The same questions are to be put to all candidates in the same school, care being taken that they are not known beforehand, or communicated by those who have been examined to those whose turn is yet to come. The nominal value of the whole paper is 50 marks,-25 for Prose and 25 for Poetry. ANSWERS of the most proficient STUDENTS in the PRESIDENCY and MOFUSSIL COLLEGES. LITERATURE PROPER. HAMLET. Morning Paper. Answer 1st.--We strike it in vain, and our attempt serves merely to expose the wickedness of our intention, while we are mocked and slighted by it, being unable to do it any injury. Answer 2d.-A little before the day dawns the cock begins to crow and make a shrill noise; so that it is commonly believed that it awakes the god of day (i.e. the sun) who is represented as travelling in his car. It is in this sense that this bird is called "the trumpet of the morn," as giving us notice that the day is approaching. Answer 3d. According to the pneumatology of the times, it was believed that every element was inhabited by its peculiar spirits, and that these spirits leave their respective abodes during the night to travel into a foreign element, whether ærial spirits wandering in the earth or earthly spirits ranging the air. "Extravagant " here means, going out of its own element. It is frequently used in the sense of making an enormous expense, going beyond the just bounds of economy. 66 Erring" here means, wandering from place to place. It is frequently used to signify, falling into errors and mistakes. Answer 4th.-" Probation means, proof. The truth of which the object made "probation," is that as soon as the cock is heard to crow, all sorts of spirits, that wander about in foreign elements during the night, hasten to their respective elements where they are confined during the day: and the spirit here added a new testimony to this truth. Answer 5th. The season here referred to is the time of the Christmas. The dove is here called "the bird of dawning." 66 Against" here means, before; so that the meaning is before that season comes, &c.— "Against" is here used as an adverb. Answer 6th.-Such is the holiness and gracefulness of the season, that at that time no planets strike each other in their revolution, which is believed to forebode evil, no fairy strikes with lameness or disease as in any other time, and no witch can enchant by all her spells and charms, but every thing is serene and peaceful. The time is "so hallowed and gracious on account of Christ's birth being celebrated at that time. Answer 7th.-But see the morning advances, which being reddened by the soft rays of the rising sun, sheds its lustre from the east over that high hill, on the top of which dews are deposited. Milton describes it "rosy-fingured morn" that sheds her bright red hue against the high wall. Answer 8th.-"As needful in our loves, fitting our duty," means, that we should acquaint him with all the circumstances that we have observed, for two reasons, first, as we are bound to him in friendship and love, and secondly, because this appearance of his father's ghost concerns him very nearly, so that it is our duty to inform him of this, as we are his subjects, and therefore bound to do him any good service that we can. Answer 9th.-It is frequently observed in individuals, that for some natural defect in them, whether arising, from the time of their birth, by the growth of some additional humour, (as sanguine, phlegmatic), which often makes them act contrary to the dictates of reason, reason, and for which they cannot be blamed (for nothing in nature can choose its own. origin so as to select for the better); or by some other hurtful defect which urges them to break the rules of society; that these men having but one defect in them, being given them by nature or acquired by the influence of some star that presided in their birth, all their virtues (though they may be as pure as if grace herself was present, and as many as may be accumulated upon man) shall in the summing up of their qualities be censured for that particular fault. RAJINDER NAUTH MITTER, Hindu College, Appendix C. First Class, First Year's Senior Scholar. GRAY'S POEMS. Morning Paper. Answer 1st." Thy milder influence impart." Here two things are compared, the mild and the vigorous influence of adversity. The poet says, "Dread godess" come not to me, clad in thy Gorgon terrors, but with a countenance benign and angelic. "Philosophic train," &c. are these. The fruits of adversity which the poet calls "Her philosophic train When a man is borne away by the current of adverse fortune he ought not to be too much depressed. Because when adversity comes, it comes for his good only. He is able to bear up with future misfortunes with greater fortitude, and is able to reason with sense, on the impropriety of being dejected at the advance of adversity. Answer 2d.-"Teach me to love and to forgive." Means. Teach me to love others, and to forgive others, (i.e.) excite in me the feeling of love and genorosity. This passage is probably taken from the Scriptures. "Thou shalt love thy neighbours as well as thyself;" and-" If you forgive your enemies, God shall forgive you." "Exact my own defects to scan, What others are to feel, and know myself a man.” (i.e.) Teach me exactly to examine my own defects or failings, and give me to know, the suffering of others, that I may feel myself mortal, like all men. Answer 3d." Celestial fire" means,-heavenly insperation. "Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre." (i.e.) or would have been great masters of lyric poetry, waking the trembling strings of the "living lyre," with ecstacy and rapture. Answer 4th.-" Spoils of time" are the improvement and advancement of knowledge as time wings forward, which adorn and enrich the ample page." The word ample is here very appropriately used, it seems as if the page of knowledge was vast and various in its information, as if it comprehended all that the fertile genius of man has been able to invent. Answer 5th." Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day." Means, left behind this radiant world,-this charming spot, where the days are ever cheerful and not gloomy. Some writers among whom is the anonymus critic, say, that the warm precincts of the cheerful day" means the body. Common sense however shows us the impropriety of the explanation. "E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." So great is the vanity of human wishes, that we desire our friends, in fact the whole world, to remember us when we are in the tomb, as they used to do, in our absence. "Fires" here means desire. "Pleasing anxious being" means, the pleasing state of this, our present existance anxious for still greater pleasures of this world. Answer 6th.-Gray here alludes to Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen of England. She was a true Briton, for the blood of the race of Tudor ran in her veins. The Bard refers with satisfaction to this circumstance, because he foresaw, that a long line of monarchs of Saxon descent was to rule over Britain. This was fulfilled in the house of Tudor whose first Sovereign was Henry VII. Answer 7th.-"What strings symphonious tremble on the air" &c. to the poets who flourished in the court of Elizabeth. Here Gray alludes "The strings trembling in the air" is a very beautiful expression. So we have in the Progress of poesy "and give to rapture all thy trembling strings." "The strains of vocal transport." This expression also is peculiarly elegant. How it brings before the reader, the pictures of wandering minstrels and "errant damoiselles" who were greatly patronized by the queen and her gay ministers and courtiers. Appendix C. Answer 8th.-The poets here alluded to are Spencer and Shakspeare. "The verse adorn again Fierce war, and faithful love, And truth severe in fairy fictions drest." Allude to Spencer, because we see it from his own writings "Fierce war and faithful love FAIRY QUEEN. The last three lines alludes to Shakspeare because it was he, that brought on the stage the moving scenes of grief, pale and emciated, pleasure, mingled with pain, to enhance the blessing, and horror "tyrant of the throbbing breast.' In other words they mean, the tragedies and comedies of that immortal poet. Answer 9th.-"A voice as of the cherub choir, Means Gales from blooming Eden bear" A voice (whose harmonious and melodious strains seem to proceede from the "cherub choir,)" describes the blooming garden of Eden, with its living fountains and gales breathing over banks of heavenly flowers. The above lines allude to Milton, and the expressions, "cherub choir" and "Gales from blooming Eden, are happily applied, Because it was Milton who described the blooming and ever-green garden of Eden, the magnificance of the Eternal's throne, and the choir of cherubs that sing night and day the praise of the Almighty. OMESH CHUNDER DUTT, Hindu College, Junior Scholar, First Year, Fourth Class, COLLINS. 1.- In earliest Greece to thee with partial choice The grief-full muse addresst her infant tongue. Partial choice' means fond preference the muse preferred fear to the other passions, grief, pity, &c. 'Addrest her infant tongue'-that is the tragic muse, while yet but incipient in Greece, paid homage to fear. The early tragic writers devoted themselves chiefly to the excitation of awful feelings. 'Earliest Greece'-Earliest, because it is there that the arts and sciences first flourished that illuminate the world-it is said to be the first country in the world which gave birth to civilization and all the polished arts of life. 2. For not alone he mused the poet's flame But reached from virtue's hand the patriot's steel.' Not only did he (Eschylus) possess the noble inspiration of a poet but his heart glowed also with the fire of patriotism and it was that virtuous emotion which led him to handle the sword of the warrior and fight for his country in the glorious battles of Marathon and Salamais. 3.- Though gentle pity claim her mingled part, Yet all the thunders of the scene are thine.' Pity claims her mingled part in the tragedy in question viz. Sophocles' Edipus. Though, he says, the tragedy excites some pitiful sensations in our hearts yet all thunders of the scence-all the dreadful portions of it which strike the reader, are thine oh fear! It is not so much to infuse in our minds tender sensations of pity as to strike us with terror and awe. 4.-But thou O hope with eyes so fair What was thy delighted measure? Often would pleasing hope softly promise future pleasure and bid us expect her lovely scenes with cheerful delay, still would her happy notes leave a lingering echo behind, such that every heart would gladly repeat and confirm. 5.-O Music, sphere-descended maid Friend of pleasure, wisdom's aid Music is the friend of pleasure-there is, indeed, nothing so charming to every mind as music-nothing can have such a universal effect upon mankind as music. It communicates into |