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PREFACE
THE second volume of the Samgitaratnakara, containing the chapters on Raga, Prakirna and Prabandha, has been out of print since 1954. Since then there have been many requests for this volume from scholars in India and abroad. We have now great pleasure in publishing a revised edition of this volume.
Though this edition is based on the previous one of 1944, the following corrections and improvements have been made:
In the first edition, one and a half verses of the text were omitted by oversight in the fourth chapter while the matter was going through the Press, although the commentaries on these verses were printed (p. 274). The mistake is rectified in this edition. The total number of verses, however, shows only a difference of half a verse as there was an error in numbering in the previous edition.
In a few places in Kallinatha's commentary, better readings have been adopted on the basis of the palmleaf MSS. in the Tanjore Sarasvati Mahal Library.
The transcripts of Simhabhūpāla's commentary have been once again carefully examined and a few minor changes in the readings have been made. Unfortunately, these transcripts are extremely defective, being full of scribal errors and lacunae. The frequent omission of vowel signs and even whole letters often
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