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<p>PREFACE.
Mat
1x publishing this work, the chief object the Editor has in view
is to supply a want which has long been felt by the students of
is to supply a want which has long been felt by the students of
Sanskrit connected with Bombay University-of an edition of
the TARKASANGRAHA, embodying not only a correct text with the
Dipikâ or gloss usually accompanying it, but also a close, faithful,
and faultless, translation of the original. That this want is most
peculiarly felt in these days when the Nyâya Philosophy is intro-
duced among the subjects prescribed for higher University Exami-
nations, is most clearly shown by the fact, that College students
are one and all dissatisfied with the only edition of the Tarka-
sangraha which is at present procurable. This edition is printed at
Calcutta and appears to have been based on one published at Allaha-
bad in 1849 for the use of the students of Benares College. Both
these editions, indeed, contain a correct text; but the versions which
they give of the text are so carelessly, executed, that they are for the
most part inaccurate and faulty, and, what is more, even misleading.
They throw little or no light on such portions of the book as are
obscure, whilst they attempt at illustration, where illustration is not
obscure, whilst they attempt at illustration, where illustration is not
required. They are, therefore, useless and unsafe guides to follow.
Hence arises the necessity for a better edition of the Tarkasangraha,
free from the blemishes which blot the editions of Calcutta and
Allahabad.
Under these circumstances, the Editor has ventured to publish
this work, with the view of rendering some service to the students
of the Tarkasangraha. The translation which accompanies the text
in the present edition is for the most part copied, with such altera-
tions as seemed necessary, from the translation which appeared in an
tions as seemed necessary, from the translation which appeared in an
edition of the Tarkasangraha published in 1851 at Allahabad, which
is now out of print. Both the text and the gloss are copied from
an edition which was published some years ago in Bombay. This
2005614
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<p>PREFACE.
Mat
1x publishing this work, the chief object the Editor has in view
is to supply a want which has long been felt by the students of
is to supply a want which has long been felt by the students of
Sanskrit connected with Bombay University-of an edition of
the TARKASANGRAHA, embodying not only a correct text with the
Dipikâ or gloss usually accompanying it, but also a close, faithful,
and faultless, translation of the original. That this want is most
peculiarly felt in these days when the Nyâya Philosophy is intro-
duced among the subjects prescribed for higher University Exami-
nations, is most clearly shown by the fact, that College students
are one and all dissatisfied with the only edition of the Tarka-
sangraha which is at present procurable. This edition is printed at
Calcutta and appears to have been based on one published at Allaha-
bad in 1849 for the use of the students of Benares College. Both
these editions, indeed, contain a correct text; but the versions which
they give of the text are so carelessly, executed, that they are for the
most part inaccurate and faulty, and, what is more, even misleading.
They throw little or no light on such portions of the book as are
obscure, whilst they attempt at illustration, where illustration is not
obscure, whilst they attempt at illustration, where illustration is not
required. They are, therefore, useless and unsafe guides to follow.
Hence arises the necessity for a better edition of the Tarkasangraha,
free from the blemishes which blot the editions of Calcutta and
Allahabad.
Under these circumstances, the Editor has ventured to publish
this work, with the view of rendering some service to the students
of the Tarkasangraha. The translation which accompanies the text
in the present edition is for the most part copied, with such altera-
tions as seemed necessary, from the translation which appeared in an
tions as seemed necessary, from the translation which appeared in an
edition of the Tarkasangraha published in 1851 at Allahabad, which
is now out of print. Both the text and the gloss are copied from
an edition which was published some years ago in Bombay. This
2005614
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