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fore long in a separate publication, a de- | Aney ; Mr N. C. Kelkar; Prin. A. B. tailed and complete exposition of the Dhruva; Sardar Madhawarao Kibe; growth of the ancient Indian law, and of Shri. Kuvalayananda, Kaivalyadham; jurisdical principles that can be distin- Mr. P. B. Gajendragadkar, Bombay ; guished from it. Many Indian and outside Mr. P. K. Gode, Poona; Pandit Satascholars such as Weber, Buhler, Jolly, valekar, Aundha. Meyer, Mazzarella from the West and
These are among the gentlemen who V. N. Mandlik, MM. Gangnath Jha, by their helpful suggestions have enProf. P. V. Kane, Prin. J. R. Gharpure,
hanced the value of the present work. and Jogeshchandra Ghose from India
Vidvadratna K. L. Daptari of Nagpur have produced works showing the most
read the work in manuscript and has laudable industry and acumen. Our
effected many corrections and improveonly hope is that ours may be a contri
ments in it. Dr. V. G. Paranjpe of the bution to the subject deserving a place
Fergusson College, Poona; Dr. V. S. alongside theirs.
Sukhatankar of Bhandarkar . Oriental
Research Institute ; Prof N. R. Phatak, Expression of thankfulness
Bombay; Tarkasankhateerth RaghunathI now proceed to perform the pleasing s'astri Kokge, Lonavala ; and Srautachaduty of tendering my thanks to all raya Dhundiraj S'astri Bapat, Wai. those who have in various ways helped
Pandit Vasud eos'astri Konkar proved forward this undertaking to its comple- himself a great canvasser, and it is no tion. The place of honour belongs to my exaggeration to say that but for his revered Guru Narayangastri Marathe,who canvassing, this work could not have started the work of the Dharmakos'a in been carried to a successful termination. 1925, and had by the time he laid down
Pandit Rangnaths'astri Joshi has shared the charge of this work in September
the editorial duties with me throughout 1931. gone through the whole of the and carried them out with conscientious Vedic literature and put to-gether all
industry. references bearing upon the subject The gentlemen referred to below have matter of Dharmakos'a. Ee collected helped me in the multifarious editorial the Smrti texts from the twelve leading tasks, like filling up and classifying Nibandha-works ( treatises); and also
the cards, preparing the index, checking prepared the alphabetical index of Sloka the finished work getting up the copy halves. His having severed his connection for the press, correcting proofs etc. They with the Dharmakos'a-Mandal has de- were the Late Sakharams'astri Bhagawat; prived the Dharmakosa of the benefit of Talekar S'astri ; Vyakantacharya Vale; his learned collaboration.
V. A. Ramachandra S'astri, VedantaOther savants and men of eminenee have
siromani ; P. N. Pattabhiram Sastri, helped the undertaking and I feel it my
Miman sacharya: B.P. Joshi ; R.G. Joshi; duty to mention their names here. Mr.
G. G. Joshi ; Vyakaranacharya' A. K. Ex-justice S. S. Patkar; The late Dr. V. I Padhye ; S. V. Lele; Vithals'astri Joshi; Kotkar, editor Maharashtra Jñanakosa ; B. N. Khare ;P. N. Khare ; M. S. Sathe ; Pandit Madan Mohan Mala viva: Justice S. V. Vaisham payana: S. R. Joshi, Bhawanishankar Niyogi ; B. Bhatta- B. A. (Tilak); H. R. Mahajani, B. A., charya Baroda ; Sir Manubhai Metha ; (Tilak); M. V. Gokhale Vedantas'astri ; Justice M. R. Jayakar; Sir Prabhashan- Nyayacharya Pandurangsastri Goswami. kar Pattani; Prof. P. V. Kane; Sjt. M.S.! The Bhandarkar Oriental Research
