पृष्ठम्:राजतरङ्गिणी प्रथमो भागः.djvu/८

PREFACE.
THE present number of the Bombay Sanskrit Series
contains the first seven tarangas of the Râjatarangini
of Kalhana. So much was printed off at the sudden and
lamentable death of the editor, Pandit Durgâprasáda of
Jeypore. A second volume will contain the eighth and
last taranga of Kalhana's work. The Pandit had com-
pleted the preparation of his text of this part of the
book, and his manuscript is in the printers' hands. I
shall discharge the pious office of seeing this part of my
friend's book through the press, and of writing, as I had
already at his request undertaken to do, an Introduc-
tion and Notes. It must be matter for future consider-
ation whether an attempt should be made to com-
plete this edition of the Râjatarangini by a third num-
ber, to contain the various supplements which were
added by later writers.
I make no doubt that an edition of the Râjatarań-
gini, prepared from manuscripts by so learned and cap-
able a scholar as Pandit Durgaprasada had proved
himself to be, will be most welcome. A reliable edi-
tion of a work so important has long been one of our
greatest desiderata. It was at my suggestion that the
Pandit undertook the work; and I know how steadily he
had, since he took it in hand, pressed it forward, in the
midst of many other laborious and important tasks.