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FOREWORD
(Second Edition )
The first volume of the Gaekwad's Oriental Series, viz., the Kāvyamimamsā of Rājasekhara, was published in 1916, and after that, more than 150 volumes are published in the Series, and a number of others are in the press or under preparation, Meanwhile many works published earlier have gone out of print, and it was necessary to reprint as many of them as possible. It has, now, become possible to reprint, at least a few such texts with the help rendered by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, under their scheme to republish out of print Sanskrit works.
Mānasollāsa, Vol. I, was one of the works selected for reprint under the scheme. The authorship of the Mānasollāsa is ascribed to Someśvara, the famous ruler of Karnātaka. The work was edited by the Late Shri G. K. Shrigondekar, Ex-Superintendent, Manuscripts Section, Oriental Institute, Baroda. The first volume was published in 1925 as no. 28 of the Gaekwad's Oriental Series, and other two volumes were out subsequently. Mānasollāsa is a veritable encyclopaedia in Sanskrit, and its importance for the study of cultural conditions of mediaeval India is self-evident. Its first volume was long out of print, and I trust that the same, along with other reprints of several numbers of the series to be brought out in near future, will be useful to all students of Sanskrit literature and Indology.
I take this opportunity to thank the Ministry of Education, Government. of India, for giving generous financial aid towards the publication of this volume.
Oriental Institute,
Baroda, June 21, 1967
B. J. Sandegara
Director
Aho ! Shrutgyanam
