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FOREWORD
The first volume of Gaekwad's Oriental Series, viz, the Kāvyamīmāmsä of Rajasekhara, was published in 1916, and after that, more than 150 Volumes are published in the Series, and a number of others are in the Press or under preparation. Meanwhile many works published earlier have gone out of print, and it was necessary to reprint as many of them as possible. It has, now, become possible to reprint at least a few such texts with the help rendered by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, under their scheme to republish out of print Sanskrit works.
The Nyâyapraveśa, Pt. I ( Sanskrit Text ), ascribed to famous logician Dinnāga by soine scholars and to his pupil Sankarasvāmin by others, is one of the works selected for reprint under the scheme. It was edited by Acharya Anandshankar B. Dhruva, and was published in 1930 as no. 38 of the Gaekwad's Oriental Series. (It may be noted here that the Nyayapraveśa, Pt. II, containing a Tibetan translation of Sanskrit Text, edited by Pt. Vidhusekhara Bhattacharyya, was published in 1927, as G.O.S. no 39.) This is an import. • text of Buddhist logic, all the more remarkable because it was published along with a commentary by famous Jaina scholar, Haribhadrasuri. The learned editor, Acharya Dhruva, has added his own Notes in English. I trust that the reprint of this text will be welcomed by the students of ancient Indian philosophical literature in general and those of Buddhist logic in particular.
I take this opportunity to thank the Ministry of Education, Government of India, for giving generous financial aid towards the publication of this Volume.
B. J. Sandesara
Director
Oriental Institute, Baroda, August 31, 1968
