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Preface
nyaya as understood in a wider sense are placed under the second head which deals with tattvajñāna, niti and wpadeša and therefore includes didactic works also.
In this attempt I cannot claim to have entirely avoided mistakes. The ground is very difficult to traverse without tripping. But I believe I have taken all possible care, and I hope the path in this field is made clearer for other scholars.
There is nothing new to be recorded so far as the plan of the preparation of this part I of Vol. XVIII is concerned. It is practically based on the general lines followed in the previous parts I-IV of Vol. XVII and laid down by Rao Bahadur Dr. S. K. Belvalkar, then Hon. Secretary of the Institute. They have determined the inter-arrangement of the descriptive sheets dealing with the same text and the system of transliteration.
The exact plan followed by me in the preparation of this volume may be indicated as follows:--
Works composed in languages other than Sanskrit are assigned Sanskrit titles in addition to those in the language (Sanskrit excluded) in which the works are composed. The latter titles are placed in brackets just below the former ones as it was done in the case of the Prakrit works dealt with in Vol. XVII. At times an alternative title or even a popular one is indicated, but in order to distinguish it from the former, it is placed within rectangular brackets. All independent works have been arranged alphabetically according to their Sanskrit titles, whereas the commentaries pertaining to them are arranged as far as possible chronologically. I
Just as Vol. XVII has been furnished with Sten appendices so is the case with this Vol. XVIII and the subsequent one (Vol. XIX ). Each of these volumes will have the following ten appendices on the lines explained in my “ Preface” (pp. xx-xxi ) of part III of Vol. XVII and that (p. xvii) of part-IV of Vol. XVII:
1 Really speaking, Ārambhasiddhi along with its oommentary (Nos.160-166) should have been assigned a place in Vol. XIX, in "miscellanea " as it deals with astrology. But the mistake was realized on my getting its compose, and it was then too late to do the needful. A similar remark holds good for Ascaryayogamala No. 173.
2 This will make up part V of this Volume.