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of foreign or later influence. How far the author has suceeded in his aim, scholars only can decide.
The work is being published posthumously. Pt. Tatācārya was born at Tiruvarangam (Tamilnadu) in 1894 and died in 1974 at Madras He was undoubtedly one of the greatest scholars of Nyāya, Pūrvamīmamsā and Višiştādvaita-Vedanta of his time in his region. He had the privilege of learning at the feet of such illustrious Gurus as Pt. Shrinivasacharya and Pt. Kuppuswami Shastri at Kumbakanam and Tiruvaiyāru., He taught Mimamsa at Tiruvaiyaru, was Reader at the Oriental Research Institute, Tirupati and even adorned the post of Principal of the Tirupati Sanskrit College. He has written over a dozen books on various darsanas and sāhitya and has created many literary works himself. He was closely associated with the preparation of Darsanakosa (a Lexicon of Indian Philosophy). For more than thirty years he edited and published a Sanskrit Magazine named Udyanapatrika. For his services towards Sanskrit, he was honoured by the President of India in 1965.
The credit to bring the Sugama to light goes to Pt. Ranganathacharya, Lecturer in Tamil at the Allahabad University who is also related to the author. He picked up this work from amongst the manuscripts left by Pt. Tatacharya and brought it to Allahabad where he prepared a press copy by ably editing it.
The work was originally published in the Vols. XXXII and XXXIII of the Journal of this Vidyapeetha. It is now being issued separately for the benefit of those who want to procure and possess it independently.
