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AUTHOR'S PREFACE
(Second Edition)
The present edition is a reprint of the first edition published about twenty years ago. Circumstances have prevented me from undertaking a revision, but I have added supplementary notes incorporating the results of recent studies on the relations of the Lemulavādaor Vemulavada Cālukyas with Somadevasūri and the locality in which he wrote his masterpiece Yašastilaka and other works. A brief note on the Eastern Cālukyan temples, based on Dr. M. RAMA Rao's interesting monograph on the subject, has also been added to supplement the information brought together in Appendix III.
The early publication of this edition is entirely due to the enthusiasm and keen interest of my esteemed friend Dr. A.N. UPADHYE. I offer my sincere thanks to Dr. B. RAMA RAJU of Hyderabad for sending me information about some of the places dealt with in the supplementary notes and drawing my attention to Sri. S. GOPALAKRISHNA MURTHY's monograph Jain Vestiges in Andhra.
K. K. Handiqui Jorhat (Assam ),
8-1-68
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