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(i) Ms. belonging to the Govt Sanskrit Library, Sara. svati Bhavana. It is a very rare work, but the Ms. is full of errors.
(ii) Ms. in possession of P. Dharmadhikārī. Correct. It extends to fol. 79 only.
(B) PRINTED EDITIONS
The printed editions utilised, though rare, for collation have been those of P. Jadunatha Sarvabhauma and the Asiatic Society of Bengal. But as these are not very carefully done they have not been of great service in determining the right reading.
The present edition of the text and commentaries is entrusted to a young scholar, Pandit Rajesvara S'astri Dravida Nyaya Vaiseṣikacharya, whose sound knowledge of Logic, intellectual zeal and painstaking habits are calculated to make the edition free from all those inaccuracies which till now have disfigured the text. That he has been doing his work creditably will be apparent from a comparison of the text now published with what was available. His annotations, too, it is believed, will prove useful. Though the work, together with a number of commentaries, had been taken up for publication by the Asiatic Society of Bengal long ago under the editorship of the late Mm. P. Vindhyeśvariprasada Dube & P. Laksmana S'astri Dravida and passed through 6 formes it was felt that its completion would require, at the rate of its present progress, no less than a score of years! The issuing of the present edition in these circumstances, it may be hoped, calls for no apology.
Sanskrit College,
Benares. } GOPINATH KAVIRAJ,