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Acknowledgement
I am grateful to Shri Lalit Kumar and Dr. Buddha Rashmi Mani for helping me in more than one ways. My sincerest thanks are due to the Centre for Art & Archaeology, IIAS, Ramnagar, Varanasi, and the Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi, for providing me the photographs. I also thank Shri Karna Man Singh and Shri Mani respectively of the Bharat Kala Bhavan and Archaeological Survey of India for the design of the Cover page as well as the line-drawings in this book. Shri P. Basu has typed the script in a record time and deserves thanks for the same. But for the constant reminders of my wife, Usha, towards my commitment and bearing with me the pains without tears, this book may not have seen the light of the day even now. I remain, therefore, most beholden to her.
I do very much appreciate the patience shown by friends in the Publications Division for overlooking the delay on my part in completing this assignment.
Buddha Purnima (May 26, 1983) Varanasi
O. P. TANDON
