This Edition of the Fifth Canto of the Kumara Sambhavam is meant to meet the requirements of the students of the Intermediate classes. In it they will find the text as well as annotations on it, and thus they will be saved of the necessity of going for a bigger edition containing the whole of the poem.
The notes contain almost all that is needed for a student and if read with proper care they will prove of great advantage to him. Thos who are regular students in some college should not neglect the lectures of their teachers, but should regard these notes as a supplement to them. Only then they can make the right use of these notes. As to the private candidates, they can safely depend on these notes for their success in the examination.
The acquaint the students with Kalidasa and his poem, an introduction has been added to the notes, which contains general as well as critical remarks.
The book has been brought out in a hurry, so it is quite possible that some mistakes of printing or otherwise may have escaped notice. For the pointing out of them we shall be thankful to the reader and corrections will be made in the next edition.
Horace Hayman Wilson (26 September 1786 8 May 1860) was an English orientalist who was elected the first Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University.
He studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, and went out to India in 1808 as assistant-surgeon on the Bengal establishment of the British East India Company. His knowledge of metallurgy caused him to be attached to the mint at. Calcutta, where he was for a time associated with John Leyden.
He acted for many years as secretary to the committee of public instruction, and superintended the studies of the Sanskrit College in Calcutta. He was one of the staunchest opponents of the proposal that English should be made the sole medium of instruction in native schools, and became for a time the object of bitter attacks.
In 1832 Oxford University selected Dr. Wilson to be the first occupant of the newly founded Boden chair of Sanskrit: he had placed a column length advertisement in The Times on 6 March 1832 p. 3, giving a list of his achievements and intended activities, along with testimonials, including one from a rival candidate, as to his suitability for the post. In 1836 he was appointed librarian to the East India Company. He also taught at the East India Company College. On 10 April 1834 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
On the recommendation of Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Wilson was in 1811 appointed secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. He was a member of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta and was an original member of the Royal Asiatic Society, of which he was director from 1837 up to the time of his death.
He married Frances Siddons, a grand- daughter of the famous actress Sarah Siddons through her son George. Wilson died on 8 May 1860 and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.
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