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third paper MS. (PSVTC) the Rājaguru Pandit Hemarāja Sarman (Nepal) kindly placed at my disposal. It has only 24 leaves. The variations of the reading of these MSS. are noted in the foot-notes.
My late lamented friend Dr. K. P. Jayaswal was overjoyed with the discovery of these works, and along with other works he sent PVS and PVST to the press in 1937. Alas ! he could not live to see it published. After his demise like an unclaimed orphan it went from door to door for its publication. Thrice it was accepted and then refused or was somehow prevented from being published. At last Mr. Srinivas Agrawal, the proprietor of Kitab-Mahal, came to its rescue from the sad 'plight. In this the help of Pandit Krishna Prasad Dar (The Manager of Allahabad Law Journal Press) was of as much importance. Mr. Dar kept the whole composed matter (about 3 ton lead in type) for seven years, and at the end also reduced the rate of printing, to facilitate the publication of such a least profitable work, from the commercial point of view. I cannot express in words my heart-felt thanks to these two friends. Allahabad
RAHULA SANKRITYAYANA sth Dec., 1943
