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FOREWORD
In October 1918 was transferred to the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute the management of the Bombay Sanskrit and Prakrit Series, till then conducted by the Government of Bombay under the joint supervision of the Professors of Sanskrit at the Elphinstone and the Deccan Colleges. The management included also the task of completing the works in the Series to which the Govment of Bombay was already pledged-and amongst these the complete edition of the Dvyās'rayakāvya of Hemachandra with the Commentary of Abhaya. tilakagani. The Editor, Professor Abaji Vishnu Kathavate, had prepared a press copy of the entire poem together with its commentary, to which he had intended giving his final revision before placing it into the hands of the printers. Unhappily death intervened, and the first volume of the work ( cantos I to 10. B. S. P. S. No. LXIX) was brought to completion under the circumstances mentioned in the Preface to that part.
This second part gives the remaining text of the poem ( cantos II to 20 ) together with the commentary on the same. This has been passed through the press under the care of the same Mr D Agashe Shastri of the Thana High So did similar service in connection with
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