Some of the manuscripts taken up for publication are represented by single copies in the Library and consequently the mistakes that are found in them could not be corrected by comparing them with other copies. The editors have, however, tried their best to suggest correct readings. The wrong readings are given in round brackets and correct readings have been suggested in square brackets. When different readings are found, they have been given in the footnotes ' except in the case of a few books in which the correct readings have been given in the footnote or incorporated in the text itself.
The Government of Madras have to be thanked for financing the entire scheme of publication although there is a drive for economy in all the departments. My thanks are due to the members of the Expert Committee who spared no pains in selecting the manuscripts for publication. I have also to thank the various editors, who are experts in their own field, for readily consenting to edit the manuscripts and see them through the press. The various presses that have co-operated in printing the manuscripts in the best manner possible also deserve my thanks for the patience exhibited by them in carrying out the corrections made in the proofs.
This edition of Pātañjala-Yogasūtra-Bhāṣya-Vivaraṇam is based on a single paper manuscript preserved in the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras, anel described under R. No. 2783.
The size of the manuscript is 10⅞" x 9¾". 1t contains 161 folios with 20 lines to a page and is in Devanāgari characters. The condition of the manuscript is good. This was transcribed in the year 1918-19 from a manuscript of Śri Narayana Namboodripad of Kudalurmana, Nareri, Tritala, Malabar District.
When the press-copy was taken up by Sri P. S.Rama Sastri for editing, it was found that there was no continuity at one place in page 168 as indicated in the footnote. Copy of the same manuscript was available in the Adyar Library. Sri S. R. Krishnamurthy Sastry took the press-copy to Adyar Library to have it collated with the manuscript in that Library but it was found that both the manuscripts did not differ from each other.On learning that a copy of the manuscript was
