xii श्रीमद्भगवद्गोता गोतार्थ संग्रहोपेता logical Survey of India from 1956 to 1977, in which he was the Dy. Superintending Epigraphist (I Class Gazetted) from 1959. From 1977 he has been Director of the Oriental Research Institute, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. He also studied Vedanta in the traditional way under reputed Pandits. He has to his credit a number of papers, has edited the Bhojacaritra and two commentaries on the Tarkasangraha and the Dipikaprakāśa with his own Tippanis. During 1983-84 the Juniormost Sankaracarya of Kamakoti Pitha was taught Nyaya Sastra by him; and in 1984 the Senior- most Sankaracãrya of that Pitha conferred on him the title of "Vedaśāstra Ratnakara". It is clear that it would be very difficult to find a more erudite savant than him for editing and translating this work, Professor Sankaranarayanan began this work, on my suggestion, soon after he came to Tirupati. He equipped himself for this task by studying the source books of Kashmir Saivism in their originals and acquainting himself with modern works in this field. His translation while being faithful to the original is lucid, while his Notes testify to his deep scholarship of Indian Philosophy and are the result of his research on this type of non-dualism. This transla- tion with its Notes throws a flood of light on a great Indian thinker's understanding of one of the greatest religio-philosophical classics of the world. Andhra Cottage, Andhra University, Waltair, 25th April, 1985, K. S. Murly
