________________ (xiv ) views of the Vedantic school. Can we conclude that this school was still in its infancy and had not yet achieved a sufficient prominence to attract the hostile attention of the Buddhist philosophers ? I am indebted to Prof. D. D. Malvania, the Director of L. D. Bharatiya Samskriti Vidyamandira, Ahmedabad, for * kindly seeing the proofs of the Introdnction, though he was, then busy at Banaras in connection with his impending departure to the Ahmedabad Institution. The K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute records its deep indebtedness to the Bihar Research Society, the custodian of the negatives of the Tibetan MSS, for permitting it to publish the present work in its Tibetan Sanskrit Series. Patna 1-1-1960. A. S. ALTEKAR Director, K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute.
