________________ lxi Ahmedabad, in 1993, I had almost forgotten about Buddhisagara. Thus, my attention was drawn away from the PGBV for almost sixteen years or more, during this intervening period of transfer, retirement, change of job, and retirement from it too; only its happy memory lingered in my mind as an interesting adventure in academic research. 16. My attention was again drawn to Buddhisagara when I received a letter from a scholar in the B. L. Institute of Indology, Delhi, sometime in 1993, regarding guidance with respect to the task of editing the PGBV. I gave clues to the scholar and supplied him with the off-prints of my three research papers on Buddhisagara.. Nothing further was known about it. But, to my surprise, when I was asked to take up the task of editing the work by Dr. Jitendra. B. Shah, the Vice-Chairman of the B. L. Institute of Indology, Delhi, in 1994 by way of a research project on behalf of his institute, I was faced with a difficult and challenging offer and was not sure whether I shall be able to fulfil the expectations from me by Dr. Shah. However, in view of my previous experience with Buddhisagara's work and its peculiarities and my awareness of the problems I was out to face, my instinct of taking up challenges, coupled with my added equipment in the field of Sanskrit Grammar, particularly Panini, and his commentaries like Kasika with its Panjika and Nyasa, as also the Prakriya-sarvasva, during my parallel research studies with reference to the Sarasvati-kanthabharana-vyakarana of Bhojadeva, enabled me to accept the offer. And, as I finished the initial work of just copying the whole text of the PGBV from the B Ms. upto its end, the problems presented before my mind in their totality, and when on searching after the probable sources of the work in Jainendra and sakatayana, I was gradually drawn to the latter and to the Kasika, my task became rather hopeful and I gained the confidence about carrying out the task successfully to the end. The work presented here is thus able to see the light of the day, thanks only to the active interest taken in assigning it to me, and to me only at my own terms and conditions. And, I was to work my way out and wander in the jungle of corrupt text myself alone, since no other scholar in India and abroad had taken any interest in the work during the long interval of about a decade and a half. I was given a free hand, and Dr. Jitendra. B. Shah gave me a solid backing by seeing to it that the terms and conditions agreed upon between me and the management of the B. L. Institute, Delhi, were implemented in toto. This served to maintain my morale and necessary enthusiasm to put in the hard labour and burn midnight oil to finish the work in stipulated time limit. I must here express my thanks to Shri N. P. Jain,
