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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 

 
I wish to express my deep debt of gratitude to Dr. V.

Raghavan, Professor of Sanskrit, University of Madras, for arrang-

ing for the publication of the work with the Adyar Library and

for his valuable suggestions which I always accepted with thanks.
 

 
I am greatly indebted to Dr. K. Kunjunni Raja, Reader

in Sanskrit, University of Madras, for helping in editing the book
and also reading the proofs.
 

and also reading the proofs.
 
I am also very grateful to Mr. K. Parameswara Aithal,

Pandit in the Adyar Library, for checking all the references and

seeing the book through the Press. I know that he has put in a

good deal of work in proof-reading and checking up references

and am extremely thankful to him for his help.
 

 
It is my pleasant duty to express also my sincere thanks to

the Adyar Library and Research Centre for undertaking the

publication of the work in its well-known Adyar Library Series.
 

 
Finally I wish to express my gratefulness to Srimati Radha

Burnier, Joint Director, for additional help in editing the work

and seeing the proofs; and to Srimati Seetha Neelakantan, the

Librarian at the Adyar Library and Research Centre for her

kind and helpful co-operation.
 

 
LUDWIK STERNBACH, LL.D.