iv The edition of this work is based on a single palm leaf manusoript belonging to Pandit Mr. N. Ramasvami Sastriar, Head Pandit, Office of the Curator for the publication of Sanskrit works, Trivandrum. It was found in an extremely worn- out manuscript volume, combined with the disarranged leaves of portions of the Siddharthacharita or Padyachudamani and a nataka of unknown name. It is written in grantha characters, and is not free from errors. The Madhuravijaya begins on the 109th leaf an oloses abruptly on the 169th leaf. It is not possible to infer how many more leaves of the manuscript have been lost. A few leaves are also missing in the middle of the manuscript and most of the remaining ones are bored with holes by insects. The first fivè sargas of the manuscript are, to some extent, continuous but the remaining portions are frag- mentary. As it stands at present, the manuscript contains the history of Kampana up to the defeat of the Muhammadans at Madura; but if the title Madhura- vijaya be significant, it cannot be far from right to infer that the work did not contain more than a sarga at the en The letters or words that we have inserted in the place of those that have been lost are marked with asterisks and enclosed within brackets. TRIVANDRUM, 10th October 1916. G. HARIHARA SASTRI & V. SRINIAVASA SASTRI (Smritivisarada.) SECOND EDITION. The work was first brought out as a pure labour of love and little had thought that there would be any necessity for the work to go through the press agair. However, with the favourable reception it has received at the hands of the Sans- kritists and on account of its having been prescribed by the University of Madras as a text-book for the B. A. Degree Examination-Group VI, the few hundred copies of the first edition have now been sold out, and I have been urged by friends to issue a second edition. Mr. R. Sewell, the author of "A Long Forgotten Empire" thinks that Kampana starting with a large army from his capi- tal could not have reached Mulvay (Kantakanana-pattana) in five or six days' march as stated in the work (vide. page 21- sloka 47) and that this apparently incorrect statement detracte
