Bibliotheca India: Collection of Oriental Works A Dictionary of the Kashmiri Language Compiled partly from materials left by the Late Pandit Isvara Kaula

The rest of the entry and the whole of (2) and (3) belong more or less to the original materials and (4) was added by the Pandit. [...] The spelling of Kishmiri words written in the Persian character has the advantage of being fairly constant but the alphabet is quite unsuited for illustrating the complicated vowel sounds of the language. [...] After much consideration and many experiments I therefore decided as: the most practical course to make the romanized transliteration the basis of the alphabetical ozeder and to arrange the words in the approximate order of the English consonants without anY regard to the vowels. [...] This is usually followed by its Sanskrit translation and then by its meaning in Englieh The following is the order of the vowels when appearing in different words of which the consonantal skeleton is the same :--a I a a a it ; ai; All ; '. 6 0 g a ; i i i ; 0 6 0 6 0 a 0 0 ; and dizos not affect the order of words. [...] 73 if." GRAMMATICAL NOMENCLATURE As Kishmiri grammars differ in the nomenclature of the various forms of the parts of speech I give below a series of tables of the declension and conjugation of the language showing the names adopted in the following pages for each form.