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Acknowledgements
 
We deem it a great privilege to express our sincere gratitude
to Professor M. R. Puri, Vice-Chancellor, Jammu University,
for writing the Foreword.
 
We are greatly obliged to Shri Bhaskaran Nair, Director,
V. V. R. I., Hoshiarpur for making available to us Ms No. 3800
of Lal Chand Collection and for rendering great help in its
reading. The help of the librarians of Government Library,
Madras, Adyar Library, Adyar and the Central Library of
Jammu University is also acknowledged for providing us the
copies of the manuscripts.
 
Our thanks are due to the University of Jammu for sanction-
ing a subsidy and to Shri K. K. Gupta, Registrar and Shri V.P.
Sharma, Assistant Ragistrar (Publications) for taking interest in
its publication. We have pleasure in expressing our affectionate
feelings to our students, Dr. Kedar Nath, Shri Bharat Bhushan
and Shri P. K. Acharya, who have helped us in the preparation
of press-copy. Finally, we are grateful to Shri Sudarshan of
Messers. Meharchand Lachhmandas Publications, New Delhi
for taking pains to bring out this work in the present form.
 
Jammu Tawi
November 16, 1984
 
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Vedkumari Ghai
Rampratap
 
CC-0 Shashi Shekhar Toshkhani Collection. Digitized by eGangotri
 
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