________________ co na Sereia THE HERITAGE OF VAISALI' Dr. S. C. SARKAR, M. A., D. Phil. (Oxon.) Forty years ago, when I was a post-graduate student of Ancient Indian History and read about the dead or decayed ancient cities of our country, my youthful mind yearned for a bringing back of the youth and spring they had lost. Renascence and rejuvenation of our motherland was not a passion with me alone, but with a large number of my fellows in the Calcutta University, in the years 1903-1911,-and the then novel study of the Greater India across the seas and snows heightened the glow of our patriotism, that was reared on the classical renaissance of the previous three or four generations. With many of us in those days, the names of Pundravardhana, Gauda or Tamralipti,... ... ... ... ... Campa, Rajageba or Vaisali,... ... ... ... Gaya, Patali or Kasi,... ... ... ... Sravasti, Kapila-vastu or Kausambi,... ... ... ... Mathura, Ujjaiyini or Dvaraka, set in motion reels of dreams, that sweetened our bitter and sickening experience of 'modern' Indian life. Those visions were abiding opes; and some years later on, I found my scope in my humble sphere in Bibar, where, since 1917, I have ever delighted in describing to my pupils the fairy places of my visions 1. Presidential address at the Fifth Vaisali Festival (April 11, 1949) at Va isali.
