Dedication

[ 7 ] TO

HIS HIGHNESS

THE RAJAH OF TRAVANCORE.

SIR,

The very obliging manner in which your Highness

has been pleased to permit me to dedicate the following

work to you, the favourable sentiments which your High-

ness has graciously expressed regarding it and my former

work, together with the liberality and patronage you have

so condescendingly afforded me, demand my most grateful

acknowledgments.

My sole object in publishing this and my former

Dictionary dedicated by permission to your Highness's

late brother and predecessor, together with other import-

ant works which I have been permitted to carry through

the press, has been a sincere desire to diffuse real useful

knowledge and learning among your Highness's subjects.

The works just referred to have required great

labour and attention on your part, and I trust my labours

will, through the blessing of Divine Providence, be even-

tually attended by beneficial results. [ 8 ] Your Highness has always patronized the dissemi-

nation of literature and education, and when these are

grounded on the best principles the results will most as-

suredly prove highly advantageous.

Such results I shall not be permitted to see, but

that the life of your Highness may be long spared, and that

you may be permitted to witness great and essential bene-

fits issuing from the various plans now in operation for

promoting real good education among your Highness's

subjects is the heartfelt wish of

Your Highness's

Most obliged

Humble Servant,

B. BAILEY.

COTTAYAM,November 1849.