PREFASE. Vyakti Viveka (व्यक्तिविवेक) 13 a ti eatise on Rietoric com2- posed by the illusti IOus Rajanaka Mahinabhatta Though tlits work has acquired mucli celebrity and is copiously re- ferred to by rhetoricans of oid, yet for Want of a coinplete copy it had not hathei to been Inco1 p02ated in the 'Kavyamala and other Sanskrit Series That this book is now placed before the appreciative public as one of the Tiivandruill Sanskrit Series' published under the 211thority of the Govern ment of His Gracious Highness the Mahara3ah of Tray 2020 is a matter of no small Satisfaction to me, Two manuscripts of this work were obtained from the Tiva1adrum Palace Library One of the112 yaus yyritten 2 or 3 centries before in grantha character on palm leaves which have almost worn out. The other ts a copy transCribed from this 23 years ago and then collated y1th a copy found in the Koopakkara Mathar) by the brilliant Sanskritist, IM. B Ry, Kerala Varma Ayl Yaliya Koil Tamputan, with the assistance of the late eminent Pandit Blattoor RamaSwami Sastriar and myself. । When this manuscript vyas again scrubinised and the printing had begun, another manuscript was kindly transmit- ted to me by the Raja of Pantalam through the Yaliya Ko1 Tampuran. An elaborate and learned commentary on the text running up to very nearly the end of the second Vimarsa was unexpectedly found appended to this manuscript. The difference in reading according to this manuscript which is denoted by the lette" ख, is mentioned at the foot of the text. । When the printing of the text was almost completicd, Mr. M. 1. Narasimha Iyengar, B. A , 3. E, A, 5 , Professor of Sanskrit in the BangaloreCollege,and Mr. Anantacharya,Pandit In the Archaeological Department, Bangalore, desirous of assisting me in my endeavours to nnearth and publish this rap
