I feel that it is a proud privilege enjoyed by me that an occasion to select a hitherto-unpublished Sanskrit work for publication under S. V.O. Institute Series presented itself before me. My long cherished wish was to find a rare literary work in Sanskrit language which might be of immense use to the general public with average zeal for literature apart from the professors of Sastras. I am glad that Sri K, Dakshinamurty M.A., Reader in Sanskrit could readily pick up a work possessing all the characteristics described above within a week after I requested him to select one for editing, So came "Kadambarikathasara" of Trivikrama on to the series, The Manuscript was found in Sri Venkateswara Oriental Institute Library. It was copied carefully from a Paper Manuscript belonging to Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras, a little over a decade ago very carefully and preserved here. The poet Trivikrama left no internal evidence yielding knowledge about himself or his work except for a few epithets giving information to the extent that he was the disciple of Sri Vidyadhara Chakravarti and his father was Rajaraja. No other particulars reading the place, the time and other works of the poet are available:. Yet by probing into darkness, Sri K, Dakshinamurty has made sincere attempts in that line to some extent. Whole of his endeavour is centred around the three names Trivikrama, Vidya (dhara) Chakravarti and Rajaraja. However it is only a beginning, but not an accomplishment. The work named by the author as "Kadambarikathasara Sangraha" is of high literary merit. We are unfortunate in being unable to secure the work in its entirety. It is referred to by scholars that the work contained 16 cantos, But the extant text is only of 12 cantos. Taking the volume of story unfinished in comparision to the story finished it is quite probable that the full work would have run to 16 cantos. Trivikrama and Abhinanda rendered Bana's Kadambari into
