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so as to avoid unnecessary duplications of explanations and examples. But in a few cases the paragraphing is awkward, e.g. in ch. V, paras 32011., where the topics and sub-topics have to be separated, in which case paragraphing can run parallel or in subordination to the topics as might be necessary to maintain clarity of treatment. Stil more awkward and rather inconvenient is the system of italicizing the English translation of Sanskrit and other Indian worlds to avoid the use of brackets, which latter are knowa to clearly indicate that the bracketed term is given as the original of its equivalent English translation. The author endeavours to cure the reader of this normal expectation by introducing unnecessarily inconvenient innovation which necessiates him to remember his note on the device every time such word occurs ! The author's flair for novelty, and perhaps for falling in line with the current fashion, has inspired him to regard footnotes as intolerable interruption and hence undesirable. He has sought to include all essential information and references to sources in the text of the work itself. So far so good. But that does not by itself disprove the necessity of footnotes. The system of footnotes-if not at the bottom of the page in question, at least at the end of the chapter or of the last one – has proved most useful and readily referable. As a result of the author's innovation, the bracketed information fit to be consigoed to the footnotes sonetimes Intrudes in the middle of a sentence and soinetimes it runs to the extent of five lines, as in para 174. That the bibliography of all the three volumes has been given in the very first one rather than in the last one, would constrain one to conclude that the author has closed his doors against utilizing and including a few useful works in original or translation, that might become available to lani during the interval between the publication of the first and the last volumes. And incidentally this might also imply that he has shut himself up against any necessary revision in the statements finalised so far. His bibligraphy would surely suffer for lack of information about many a better edition of some of the Sanskrit works and the English translations recently done by Indian or Non-Indian scholars like Giuseppe Giovanni Leonardi and others.
Inspite of these minor aberrations, the work is indeed a highly valuable contribution to Indological studies and affords a fresh and thorough insight into the socio-literary forces that have gone into the making of the Sanskrit literature. The scholarly enthusiasm and profound integrity, along with the rare insight, barnessed by Dr. Warder, a genuine Sahrdaya, in preparing such an authentic work would have surely mitigated Bhasa's dis-appointment that appreciators are but rare".
