Parashar Smruti Part 02

Author(s): Madhavacharya, Chandrakant Tarkalankar
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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interest on Madhaváchārya's methodology. It is interesting to note that still to date the text is held in high esteem among scholars, and it continues to be studied as a basic text book for the smrti courses of study in different chatuspăthis in the country. But the Society's edition, published in the last decade of the 19th century, went out of print long ago, and the library copies, wherever available, have also been extremely worn out and almost unusable. Hence this reprint edition by photo-offset process in two volumes (the second and third of the original edition being combined in the second volume), which we hope will remove a long-felt want of the scholars.
In this connection we respectfully remember that at the suggestion of the late Mahāmahopadhyaya Kalipada Tarkachārya the Council of the Society decided upon bringing out the current edition of this important treatise. Our thanks are also due to Dr. R. K. Sharma of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Government of India, for taking interest in the project and providing the Society with 50% of the cost of production by way of advance.
The Second Volume, consisting of the Prāyaśchitta Kanda and the Vyavahira Kaņda, is released earlier than the First Volume, as some portions of the latter could not be brought under photo process, and are being composed for printing. In any case it will also come out soon.
The Asiatic Society Calcutta, July 1973
S. K. MITRA General Secretary