Panchratre Jayakhya Samhita

Author(s): Embar Krishnamacharya
Publisher: Orental Institute

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FOREWORD (Second edition)
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The first volume of the Gaekwad's Oriental Series, viz., the Kavyamimāmsă of Rājasekhara, was published in 1916, and after that, more than 150 volumes are published in the Series, and a number of others are in the press or under preparation. Meanwhile many works published earlier have gone out of print, and it was necessary to reprint as many of them as possible. It has, now, become possible to reprint at least a few such texts with the help rendered by the Ministry of Education, Governinent of India, under their scheme to republish out of print Sanskrit works.
The Jayakhyaşamhita is one of the works selected for reprint under the scheme. It was edited by Pandit Embar Krishnamacharya and was published as number 54 of the Gaekwad's Oriental Series in 1931. It is one of the most ancient and authoritative works of the Pāñcarâtra Agama, the other two being the Sättyata-Samhita and the Pauskarasamnhita. I trust that the reprint of such an important text will be welcomed by scholars of Sanskrit in general and those of the Pāficarätra Agama in particular.
I take this opportunity to thank the Ministry of Education, Government of India, for giving generous financial aid towards the publication of this volume.
Oriental Institute, Baroda. January 2, 1967.
B. J. SANDESARA
Director