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PREFACE.
IT is a great asset to the Oriental Scholars at large and l'rofessors of Zoology in particular in bringing out the Mriga-PakshiSastra in Manuscript for the first time by well-known Pandit V. Vijayaraghavacharya Epigraphist, and published, later on by
Ir V. Krishaswamy. There was an opportunity to bring out the same M$. and to publish with an English or German translation by the profound Scholar Dr.Otto Scherader, Ph.D.formerly Direetor, Adyar Library, Madrrs, and now, l’rofessor of Sanskrit in the University of Keil, Germany, if the Grent War of 1914 would not have occured and
ven if he would not have interned at Alajuernagar in India, at that time. It is a good thing for having secured only one copy of Hamsadeva's work of 13th Century A.D., and for having published the text in Devanagari Script as it is and also been translated into English in the same style of the author, in simple Language, hy Mr. M. Suadaracharya even withont refering to the modern books written by the Western Naturalists or Indian authors. This is one of the earliest work ever published in Sanskrit in the subject of Zoology.
I hope, this may be widly read by the Students and Sobolars, since it is found very useful and may be adorned for all public Libraries
111 India, Europe, Avuerica, and other inoderu cultural lands in the
Universe.
Religious' Camp,
TULSI GHAT, Benares, U. P.
T. V. LAKSHMI NRISIMHACHARYA.
