lviii श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता गोसार्थ संग्रहोपेता Dr. T. Venkatacharya, Sanskrit Professor, Toronto University, Canada, helped me quite unreservedly by acquiring and presenting me a copy of the costly book of Prof. R. Gnoli's Italian Translation of the GS. Mr. Hemaraj, a Belgian scholar kindly took the pain of explaining to me some of the passages from the Italian Translation. I am deeply indebted to all these scholars for their helpen ylimoviaU odt pr The members of Research Staff of the Oriental Research Institute, S.V. University, particularly my lamented friend Sri Srinivasavaradan and Sri Ananta- narayana, Research Assistants in Sanskrit, assisted me in collating the readings of the Critical Apparatus and in preparing the press copy of the text. They all have also corrected proof pages and helped me in preparing the indices. Besides, the members of the Clerical Staff of the Institute have also put their efforts in more than one way in bringing out the I thank all these colleagues of mine fo volumes, SINING er Cooperation. T ATLE their oda ne vainastiald As early as 1979 the press copies of the parts I and II were sent to the S.V. University Press for printing There had been many difficulties in bring- ing out the volumes. In 1983, the Govt. of India, Dept. of Culture (Ministry of Education and Culture) was good enough to give the Oriental Research Institute S. V. University, financial assistance under its, scheme of preservation and publication of manu- scripts. We are grateful to the authorities of the Department concerned for this good gesture and to the authorities of the S. V. University for enabling us to get this grant. Then allowing the S.V. University.
