The elephant-lore of the Hindus; the elephant-sport (Matanga-lila) of Nilakantha; translated from the original Sanskrit with introd., notes, and glossary by Franklin Edgerton.

Thus the Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford once brought an Indian army chaplain to dine at the high table of Oriel, and in the common room after dinner the Fellows courteously turned the conversation to the subject of life and work in India, on which the chaplain held forth with fluency and zest.

No English metrical system could give any idea of the almost infinite resources of Sanskrit in this respect.

ZEND, name applied, mistakenly it would seem, by the Europeans to the ancient Iranian language of Persia, or the language in which the Zend-Avesta is written, closely related to the Sanskrit of the Vedas it appears.

All of which was undoubtedly intensely interesting, but was as so much Sanskrit to Joel; and he walked back to his room after supper with a greatly increased respect for the game of golf.