________________ FOREWORD I deem it a great privilege to associate myself with the publication of this third and conclusive Volume of Advaitadipika of Nssimhasrama by our University. I regard Panditaraja Brahmasri S. Subramanya Sastri, the erudite editor of this important Vedantic text, who has made a niche for himself as a pre-eminent scholar of Vedanta, Nyaya and Mimamsa in the country, as my Vidya-guru, though I did not have the opportunity of learning under him as a regular student. But as a student of Vedanta Siromani class in the Madras Sanskrit College in the late forties and subsequently as a Lecturer in Sanskrit in the Vivekananda College, Madras, I had many opportunities of listening to bis learned discourses in Sanskrit on philosophical subjects and his incisive interventions in traditional colloquia. He has been quite a prolific editor of sastraic texts, and it is a privilege to this University to have his association in its publication programmes. I look upon this opportunity to be providentially linked with this publication as an honour on another count too. Dr. Gaurinath Sastri, my illustrious predecessor in office, who presided over this University for two terms, had contributed the Foreword to the two earlier Volumes of this text and it is a rare pleasure to be able to complete the publication which he started and which received the patronage of another illustrious predecessor the late Pandit Badri Nath Shukla, with whose recent disappearance, I lost a personal supporter in Varanasi and the country, its most eminent Naiyayika. Good fortunes too do not come single, on occasions. It is much more than mere, good fortune that this publication is to be released by His Holiness Chandrasekharendra Sarasvati, the Paramacarya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetha at Kancheepuram in the precincts of the Kanchi Math,