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PREFACE
out to me their two MSS. of the present work (MSS. A. & B.). Facilities for collating the other three MSS. were secured for me by my friend Dr. Tarachand Gangawal, M. B. B. S., Palace Surgeon, Jaipur, Master Motilal Samghi, SanmatiPustakālaya, Jaipur, and Pandit Nāthuram Premi, Bombay. For this help I am greatly indebted to these gentlemen.
Rai Bahadur Hiralal has laid mo under a deep debt of gratitude by encouraging me in my literary activities throughout and, on this occasion, by sending to me his valuable article on the Nagas of Central India', which I have fully consulted and even quoted fron in the Introduction on the Nāgas and the Nāgaloka.' I have also consulted his 'I'escriptive Lists of Inscriptions in C. P. and Berar' for the same section.
I am thankful to Prof. V. V. Mirashi, M. A., Head of the Department of Sanskrit in the Nagpur University for kindly drawing my attention to the references to Nāgaloka in the Navasāhasānkacarita.
My obligations are due to all the authors whose works I have consulted, referred to or quoted from mention of which will be found in the list of abbreviations.
I am very highly obliged to my friend Dr. P. L. Vaidya of Poona for his valuable suggestions and advice in the editing details and his inestimable help in getting the work printed in Poona. The distance between the editor and the printers would have caused a good deal of delay in the completion of the volume and would surely have affected its printing quality had it not been for Dr. Vaidya's presence on the spo! and his keen interest in the matter. I am also thankful to the Manager and staff of the Shree Ganesh Printing Works, Poona, for doing their best in the ex cution of the work.
I am indebted to my Principal, Mr. F. P. Tostevin, for recommending to the Local Government to pernit me to undertake the editorship of the series, and for encouraging me and helping me in various ways.
With such co-operation as I have been receiving, I expect to be able to carry on the work of the series. Suggestions for improvement in any direction will always be very welcome.
King Edward College,
Amraoti. 1st December, 1932.
HIRALAL JAIN
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