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CHIEF EDITOR'S NOTE
Publication of research bulletins has been envisaged as an important programme of this Institute. We published our first bulletin in 1971 and the second in 1974. Both these numbers were well received in the world of scholars and queries for the subsequent number were frequently made. We are glad to present this third number of our research bulletin to the scholars.
Among the contributors of our first number were such stalwarts as Dr. S. Mookerjee, Pandit Sukhlalji Sanghwi and Dr. N. Tatia. The second number gained dimensions on account of its association with Dr. Hira Lal Jain, a pioneer in the field of Prakrit and Jaipological Studies. Contributors of this number too are distinguished scholars in their own fields and we are sincerely grateful to them for their learned contributions. Most of the articles for the present number had been collected by Dr. N. Prasad, the former Director of this Institute for which we are grateful. We cannot claim that the contributions of our own teaching staff to this number have been significant. It is for the readers to judge.
Mr. Rama Shankar Pandya, the Proprietor of Tara Printing Works deserves our thanks for quick and fine printing of this bulletin.
R. P. PODDAR
Vaishali, March 20, 1982
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