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Gosvaini B. A., L. M. S. too, for the kind interest he has all along taken in the publication of this work and for various intelligent suggestions, which have been of considerable help to me.

My thanks are also due to numerous learned authors, ancient and modern from whose writings, I have found it necessary to make frequent quotations.

10, Kashi Ghose's Lane.

KUNJA LAL BHISHAGRATNA.

1st December, 1907.

CALCUTTA.

Kaviraj.