A Vedic Concordance c4.s6.2

c4.s6.2

To Pupils and Colleagues.—A good many years have gone by since the first preliminaries of the work on the Concordance were begun. It is pleasant to think that in those early days I was aided by the members of a modest institution within the Johns Hopkins University, the so-called Vedic Seminary. The work of reading the several Vedic texts for the purpose of marking off properly the pādas and formulas I did of course myself; but, this important preliminary done, I would often turn to one or another of these my pupils a text or part of a text in order that they might transcribe the mantras upon slips. Portions of the first draft of a rough manuscript were also prepared by some of them from the slips after their partial arrangement. Not a little help was derived from their willing hands in these ways, and I desire here to recall the unselfish and enthusiastic spirit in which each gave what he could spare of time and labor. I hope that even those of them who aided least have not remained unremembered. The names of these scholars are as follows: