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PREFACE
Introductory part of Pāiyasaddamahaņņayo by Pandit Hargovind Das T. Sheth, Calcutta. I have occasionally differed from them in the views, as also in the method of treating the subject, and yet, I feel I owe to them a deep debt of gratitude. The illustrations have been chiefly chosen from among those given by the grammarians and from works which students are likely to read in their first and second years, and this Manual should therefore proye of great use to them.
I am glad to find that the first edition of this Manual, published in August 1933, is sold out in less than a year, and that a second edition has become necessary. I have availed myself of this opportunity to revise the book thoroughly and to incorporate in it considerable additional matter. I feel confident that this revised and enlarged edition will prove more useful to the students than its predecessor. Poona ?
P. L. VAIDYA July 1934 §
(Fourth EDITION) . This edition is merely a reprint of the Second Edition.
Poona, 1944.
P. L. VAIDYA
