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PREFACE
The slips prepared for the Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit MSS. on Philosophy in the collection of the Asiatic Society by late MM. Haraprasad Sastri, M.A., Ph.D., C.I.E., were entrusted first to Professor Chintaharan Chakravarti and then to Pandit N. C. Vedantatirtha for editing in order that they might be brought up to date and printed as Vol. XI of the series. Some of the slips containing entries of MSS. belonging to the Samkhya School of Philosophy, which were prepared by the late MM. Sastri, were in a damaged condition. Pandit Vedantatirtha restored all of them, and nearly a quarter of the whole body of the Catalogue is his work. It must also be said that Professor Chintaharan Chakravarti was also "of great help in the preparation of the Samkhya and Yoga portions of the Catalogue. Pandit Vedantatirtha is responsible for the major part of the Catalogue.
The volume contains entries from Nos. 7412 to 8882. To follow the history and development of the orthodox Sanskrit Philosophical systems, Pandit Vedantatirtha has arranged and classified the MSS. in chronological order as far as practicable and added an Introduction on the Schools of Indian philosophy.
J. N. Banerjea.
