Niti Kalptaru

Author(s): V P Mahajan
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

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PREFACE
The present editicn of the Nitikalpataru ascribed to Vyāsadāsa Kșemendra has been prepared from a single manuscript, which was available in the Bhandarkar O. R. Institute. This being so, in many places, the readings given by me had to be conjectural. However, I have tried to keep myself as faithful to the original as possible. I am grateful to the authorities of the B. O. R. I. for having agreed to publish this edition of the Nitikalpataru as the first Volume in their newly started Post-graduate and Research Department Series.
A pleasant task of thanks-giving has to be done. At the outset I must express my sincerest thanks to my Revered Guru, Prin. R. D. Karmarkar, Director, Post-graduate and Research Department, B.O. R. I., but for whose encouragement and help I would not have been able to undertake and finish this work. I have also to thank Dr. R. N. Dandekar, Hon. Secretary, and Dr. P. K. Gode, Curator, of the B. O. R. I., for the help they rendered to me. I am also conscious of the help given by my friends in the Institute and I thank them all. I also thank the authorities of the University of Poona for the grant which they have sanctioned for the publication of this work. I now offer this work to scholars with the following words :
गच्छतः स्खलनं क्वापि भवत्येव प्रमादतः । ममैषा प्रणतिस्तस्मात् क्षन्तव्योऽयं जनो बुधैः ।।
B.O. R. I.
Poona 4 10th August, 1956
V. P. Mabajan