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wide gulf between these two. Yet the prospective pleasure of doing some little service to the rising generation of Vaishnavas overcame all fears which were at first deterring him from undertaking this responsibility.
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The author very willingly agreed to undertake the responsibility and soon after the permission set to work. The author, after composing a rough scetch of the work, showed it to the Hon secretary of the fara The samiti approved of the work with slight modifications It must, however, be confessed that the present work is really entirely different fromtis prototype and from the above scetch.
The present work, no doubt, is far more voluminous and detailed then what it was originally intended to be, and in being based on an altogether different system of arrengem-ent, it promises to have come in altogether new garments.
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when the work was in progress the author had to meet great many obstacles. The family calamities fell on the author in succession His wife passed off. Just after thirteen days of the sorrowful death his second son passed away. After another eight months cruel fate took away his dearest son Upendra!
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