Gotra Pravar Nibandh Kadambam

Author(s): P Chentsalrao
Publisher: Government of Mysore

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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
A collection of Sanskrit tracts treating of Gotra and Pravara was published in 1893 in Teluga character under the direction of Mr. P. Chịntsal Rao, c. I. E. The publication was originally intended for private circulation, and therefore only a very limited number of copies were printed ; and as detached copies of parts of the work were given away as they issued from the press, there remained only between twenty and thirty copies of the entire collection when the printing was completed. Ever since the publication of the first edition there has been a great demand for the work, and a second and revised edition has been therefore undertaken under the orders of the Government of Mysore.
! The several tracts and treatises comprised in the colo lection have been carefully revised by collating the first Edition with the manuscripts since collected for the Oriental Library at Mysore. Since Bodhầyaná’s Mahâpravarâ - dhyâya and the Pravara section of the Matsya-Purâņa are quoted in extenso in Purushottama’s Pravaramanjarî, it has been thought unnecessary to print them separately as was done in the first Edition. An alphabetical index of all GotraRishis forms a new feature of this Edition. A separate dissertation on intermarriage between the Gargas and the Bharad vâjas has been added, while Abhinava-Mâdhava's metrical treatise on the subject is accompanied with a commentary by the author himself.
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