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PREFACE
« Méga biblíon, méga kakón » : the great evil however has been done—the text of my book, barring the Contents and the Index, runs up to neatly 1100 pages ; but this could not be helped—as the subject, it must be admitted, is a very wide one. I have not stinted any labour, and I have tried to do my best : but
« ā paritōṣād viduṣaṁ na sādhu manyē prayōga-vijñānam ».
The University,
Calcutta : Suniti Kumar Chatterji.
15 June, 1926.