________________
Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
www.kobatirth.org
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
xxii
PREFACE.
pages of such, consisting for the most part of trivial mistakes or omissions, the larger proportion of which do not find a place among the footnotes. The space occupied by the latter is quite large enough already.
The printed text of the Sarvânukramani, together with an introduction and a short autobiography in German, I offered as a dissertation for the degree of Ph. D. in the University of Leipzig, at Easter 1884. I desire to take this opportunity of thanking my examiners, Profs. Hildebrand, Leskien, and Windisch, for their courtesy to me on the occasion of my oral examination at Leipzig, and the latter also for some transcripts from Berlin MSS. of the introduction to the Sarvânukramanî, which he was kind enough to lend me. I am indebted to my friend Prof. E. Leumann, of Strassburg, for some useful hints he gave me, while in Oxford, with regard to the arrangement of the notes. Prof. Julius Eggeling I have to thank for a note about the Aprî hymns. To Prof. Max Müller I must express my gratitude for the help derived from the very wide knowledge of Vedic literature which the editor of the Rigveda and of Sâyana possesses, in finding the clue to obscure references in Shadgurusishya's commentary. To his guidance in my Sanskrit studies I owe so much, that although I never attended any of his lectures, with the exception of a few informal ones on the Lalita Vistara, given some six years ago for the benefit of two young Japanese priests, who had come to study Sanskrit under him at Oxford, I cannot but look upon myself as a pupil of his in the real sense of the word.
I cannot conclude without congratulating the Delegates on possessing the services of an Oriental Reader who performs his duties so excellently well as Mr. J. C. Pembrey of the University Press.
A. A. M.
OXFORD, August 20th, 1886.
For Private And Personal Use Only
