Gahakoso Part 2

Author(s): Madhav Vasudev Patvardhan, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: B L Institute of Indology

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Foreword by the Editor
The present volume (B.L. Series, No. 5) is part II of the edition of the Gābākosa of Hāla, of which Part I (containing the Prākrit text and Bhuvanapāla's Sanskrit commentary) was published in 1980 (Prakrit Text Series No.21), by the Prakrit Text Society, Ahmedabad. Because of my indifferent health, my work on Part II was suspended and postponed for a good many years, and hence the Prakrit Text Society could not publish Part II. In 1986 however Dr. V. M. Kulkarni introduced me to Shri Pratap Bhogilal, who kindly agreed to publish Part II in the B. L. Series with the permission of Prof. D. D. Malvania, Secretary, Prakrit Text Society. The present volume contains the English translation of the Prakrit text. index of stanzas in the text, glossary of words, explanatory notes and introduction.
I consider it to be my pleasant duty to express here my heart-felt thanks to Dr. A. Weber for the inspiration and invaluable help that I derived from his monumental and pioneering work on Hāla's (Gāthā-) sapta-sataka in German (1881), and on the version of Bhuvanapāla (published by Dr. Weber in Indische Studien, Vol. 16, 1883 ); to Shri Pratap Bhogilal, who kindly agreed to publish Part II in the B. L. Series; to Prof. D.D. Malvania for agreeing to the publication of Part II in the B. L. Series, and to Dr. V. M. Kulkarni for the keen interest he took in the publication of Part II. My thanks are also due to Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona; to L. D. Institute, Ahmedabad; to Oriental Institute, Baroda; to Fergusson College, Poona and to Willingdon College, Sangli, for allowing me to make use of relevant manuscripts and reference books in their libraries. Finally I am happy to record my thanks to G. G. Barve and his sons (of the Ved Vidya Mudranalaya, Poona), for the decent printing and get-up of the book and uniform courtesy during the process of printing.
M. V. Patwardhan
Poona - 411004, February, 1988