| NOTE. In putting through the press from his manuscript this second volume of my friend's edition of the Rajatarangini I have not thought it right-except in one case, my memorandum as to which I have unfor- tunately mislaid-to take readings from the valuable edition of Dr. Stein. In many cases it will be found that Stein and Durgaprasada agree in new readings which are manifestly correct. It ought to be under- stood that Durgaprasada arrived at these readings independently. He got them from a manuscript which was obtained for him by me on loan from Mathura, and which I have in the course of the present year been able to purchase for the Government of Bombay Collection. It cannot, of course, be claimed for this manuscript that it is an independent authority for the readings in question. In all probability the Mathura manuscript is no more than a copy, made with unusual care, of the manuscript on which Dr. Stein's edition is founded. But it is due to Durgaprasada to say that the text as presented here is the text as he had finally prepared it before his lamented death and before the publication of my friend Dr. Stein's monumental work. In the preface to the first volume I promised an Introduction and Notes to the whole work, a part of
