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1901
Sheth MANILAL REVASHANKAR JHAVERI and to Mr. KUNDANLAL JAIN; without the munificent encouragement of the former and the willing cooperation of the latter I do not think I would have been able to publish my studies in P.-prakāśa in the present form. I am very much obliged to Pt. K. BHUJABALI SHASTRI, Jaina Siddhanta Bhayana, Arrah (Bihar) and to Pt. LOKANATHA SHASTRI, Viravāṇivilăsa Jaina Siddhānta Bhavana, Moodbidri (South Kanara), who kindly lent me some valuable Mss. which enabled me to make the textual study sufficiently exhaustive. I am very thankful to Mr. N. R. ACHARYA, Bombay, who helped me by checking the press-corrections from my proofs; and often his suggestions were very useful to me. Thanks are also due to Mr. P. K. GODE, Poona ; Prof. HIRALAL, Amraoti; Pt. JUGALKISHORE, Sarsawa ; Pt. JAGADISHCHANDRAJI, Bombay ; Pt. KAILASCHANDRAJI, Benares ; Prof. M. V. PATWARDHAN, Sangli ; Pt. NATHURAM PREMI, Bombay; and Pt. PANNALAL SONI, Jhalara Patan, who have been of use to me in various connections.
I am much obliged to Sraddhēya Muni Sri PUNYAVIJAYAJI, Pattan, who suggested, with the help of a local Ms., many important corrections in the proofs of the Sanskrit commentary, and who readily sent a Ms. of Yogasāra from the famous Bhandara of Patan. I record my obligations to Dr. P. L. VAIDYA, Poona, by whose kind suggestions the shape of the present Introduction is much benefited.
I record my sense of gratitude to Dr. BALKRISHN, Principal, Rajaram College, Kolhapur, whose almost personal interest in my studies has uniformly encouraged me in my work.
I am placing this work of mine in the hands of serious students of Indian literature, I might be allowed to add, with sufficient consciousness of its limitations which are but natural, since much of the field covered is still untrodden. If it is human to err, it is much more human to see one's errors corrected in time. So here I record my thanks to all my readers in anticipation of their encouraging criticism and kind suggestions.
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Kolhapur : June, 1937.
A. N. UPADHYE.
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