PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.
The first edition, published seventeen years ago, has been out of print for some time; but as the demand for it continues we decided to re-issue it.
The text was so canefully prepared on the former occasion that I have seen no reason to alter it except in one or two places, but the Notes have undergone thorough revision. The “Maxims" so often referred to are my First, Second and Third Handful of Popular Maxims current in Sanskrit literature (published by the Nirnaya-sagar Press) each of which is now in a second edition. The adoption, on this occasion, of somewhat smaller type has reduced the size of the book by 30 pages;but the changed pagination which this necessarily involved has given me a great deal of extra work. However, the list of quotations has been adapted to the present edition, but I was compelled to abandon the index to the Words. Had I been a guru I could have entrusted to a sisya the troublesome task of re-writting it; but, being only a solitary worker, no such aid was available. I am thankful to have lived long enough to bring the work up to date myself, and no further revision should be needed for many a day if ever.
Redhill-Surrey,}
20 June 1911.} G. A. JACOB.
