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footnotes. Many details in some of them were repeated. The editor has, therefore, been constrained to edit them suitably and introduce necessary amendments while keeping the substance of the authors statement intact; and, the footnotes added by Dr. V. Venkatachalam on some of the papers have been incorporated as such in their respective places in the endnotes, with his name mentioned in brief as V.V.
I have great pleasure in acknowledging the help in the form of the facilities like an air-conditioned room with a computer made available in the campus of the L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad, by Dr. J. B. Shah, the Director of the L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad, to carry out this task of editing these research papers of the above-mentioned Seminars. I am thankful to Dr. V. P. Jain, the Director of the B. L. Institute of Indology, Delhi, for the confidence put in me by entrusting this work to me. I am also thankful to my young friend Shri Jagdish Patel, a member of the computer staff of Dr. J. B. Shah, for the technical help provided from time to time whenever I needed it in the course of entering the data of this book myself.
N. M. KANSARA
Ahmedabad 25 June 2000
