History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c97.3.5

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In the same year I submitted an essay on ‘Aryan Manners and Morals as depicted in the Epics’ for the V. N. Mandlik Gold Medal of the Bombay University and was awarded a prize of books worth Rs. 150 For this essay I read both the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa. Till now I have read the Mahābhārata thrice and I have yet got the notebooks of extensive extracts, particularly from the Mahābhārata In the next year I appeared for a Departmental Examination for Honours in Teaching and secured first class in ‘Logic in relation to teaching’ The same year (1906) I submitted a paper on ‘the History of Alaṅkāra Literature’ for the V. N. Mandlik Gold Medal again and was awarded the medal. At the end of this year I lost my younger brother by T. B. I was transferred at my own request to the Elphinstone High School in Bombay as 5th assistant on Rs. 75 in April 1907. There were over 40 teachers in that High School and about 750 students from the 4th to the 7th standard. I was made Head Sanskrit teacher (there were three teachers of Sanskrit and 12 classes in Sanskrit). Towards the end of 1907 the post of Assistant to the Professor of Sanskrit at the Poona Deccan College (on Rs. 125 p. m.) fell vacant and I applied for the post. But I was not appointed and another person who was an M. A. in Sanskrit, but had won no prize, scholarship or medal in Sanskrit at any examination from the Matriculation to the M. A.