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Mahavidyalay, Amaravati, to go through the translation. He was in a way a student of Prof. Upadhye as he too was in Rajaram College but more than that a good neighbour and close friend of his when he was associated with him in academic bodies of the Shivaji University, Kolhapur. He readily accepted my request, spent hours going through the tentative translation and holding discussions with me. Dr. Bedagkar disdains a literal translation and made valuable suggestions to improve it in keeping with the English idiom and the spirit of that language. I have no words to express adequately my debt of gratitude to him.
I express my sincere gratitude to Professor H. C. Bhayani, a great lover of Prakrit and President of the Prakrit Text Society, Ahmedabad who took keen and personal interest in the publication of this Prakrit Kavya. But for his active interest in Prakrit Studies I do not think this work would have seen the light of the day.
I offer my sincere thanks to my young friend, Dr. Jitendra Shah, Director, Sharadaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre, Shahibag, Ahmedabad for undertaking the publication of this work.
I very much hope the present edition receives warm welcome from the world of scholars working in the field of Sanskrit, and more particularly, Prakrit Studies.
25 October, 1995
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