मृगपक्षी-शास्त्र (हंसदेव - १३वीं शती का अमर भारतीय वन्यजीव, पक्षी एवं प्राणि-विज्ञान)

PREFACE.
IT is a great asset to the Oriental Scholars at large and
Professors of Zoology in particular in bringing out the Mriga-Pakshi-
Sastra in Manuscript for the first time by well-known Pandit
V. Vijayaraghavacharya Epigraphist, and published, later on by
Mr V. Krishaswamy. There was an opportunity to bring out the same
MSS. and to publish with an English or German translation by the
profound Scholar Dr.Otto Scherader, Ph.D.formerly Director, Adyar
Library, Madras, and now, Professor of Sanskrit in the University of
Keil, Germany, if the Great War of 1914 would not have occured and
even if he would not have interned at Ahamednagar in India, at
that time. It is a good thing for having secured only one copy of
Hamsadeva's work of 13th Century A.D., and for having published the
text in Devanagari Script as it is and also been translated into English
in the same style of the author, in simple Language, by Mr. M. Sun-
daracharya even without refering to the modern books written by the
Western Naturalists or Indian authors. This is one of the earliest
work ever published in Sanskrit in the subject of Zoology.
I hope, this may be widly read by the Students and Scholars,
since it is found very useful and may be adorned for all public Libraries
In India, Europe, America, and other modern cultural lands in the
Universe.
Religious' Camp,
TULSI GHAT, } T. V. LAKSHMI NRISIMHACHARYA.
Benares, U. P. /