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topic sdiscoursed upon in this work in very simple style
are such as are not dealt with anywhere else and are
presumed in the Bhasbyas to be well estabJished.
That Appaya Dikshita was looked upon as an
a,utllOrity on both the Pitrva and the U ttara Mimamsa
systems is well attested to by Kbandadeva, himself a
Mimc1msa scholar of no mean repute, styling him as
MimtLmsakamurdhanya
the foremost among the
lVnmtLmsa scholars. Emanating from the pen of such a
reputed scholar this work is sure to be found very
valuable.
We had the help of several 1'IRs. In preparing this
work for the Press and our thanks are due to Brahma
ri
Suhrahma1.lya
astrigal of IVIannargudi and to Brahma::;ri
Subrahmal.1ya 0c'strigal, Professor of VedfLnta at the Sans-
krit Institute of Bangalore which is founded by His Holi-
ness of Sringeri Mutt, for the two we)] written palm leaf
Mss. of this work placed by them at our disposal. We
had access also to the Mss, at the llysore Govern-
ment Oriental Manuscripts Library whenever a reference
to them was found necessary. We have also to specially
thank Brahma
ri V aidyanatha
astrigal, Professor of
Mlmamsa at the Sanskrit Institute of Bangalore, but for
whose invaluable help in editing, we could not have
brought out this precious work. In conclusion we hope
that this is the first of the several works of this great
3cholar ha.t will be issued from this Press.
J. X. cJ3alasu6rahmanyam.
