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PREFACE
The palm-leaf manuscript on which the present edition of Tattvopaplavasimha is based was first discovered by Pandit Sukhlalji and Pandit Bechardas Dosi in the year 1926 in a MSS library at Patan known as Sanghavinā Padāno Bhandar, when they were searching for the MSS of Sanmatitarka and its commentary Tattvabodhavidhāyini. A short note on this work was published by Prof. Rasiklal C. Parikh the then editor of the Puratattva Quarterly in Vol. IV Nos. 1-2 p. 155 and the work was proposed for publication in the Puratattvamandir Series. Owing to various adverse circumstances, however, TPS. could not be undertaken for that Series. It gives us, therefore, great pleasure that after so many years it has become possi to publish the same in the G. 0. S. for which our heartfelt thanks are due to tliat great patron of learning H. H. the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda and the learned editor of the series Dr. B. Bhattacharyya.
Our thanks are also due to Dr. A. B. Dhruva for some valuable suggestions, to Muni Punyavijayji through whom we were able to procure the palm-leaf manuscript of TPS, to Sri Jinavijayji who helped us in deciphering many obscure letters in the ms, to Pandit Dalsukh Malvaniya and Pandit Keshavram Shastri for helping in proof-reading, to Pandit Mahendra Kumara Nyayacharya for helping in tracing quotations and to Srimati Hirakumari in preparing indexes.
