युक्तिकल्पतरु (महाराज भोज - नौका-निर्माण, जलयान-विज्ञान, शस्त्र, दुर्ग एवं राजधर्म सटीक)

Digitized By Siddhanta eGangotri Gyaan Kosha 43,262
Foreword.
The Yukti-kalpataru is long known to scholars interested
in Indian antiquities as a source of useful and interesting
information, and has been utilized by some of them in their
works; but the difficulty of having access to its manuscript
copies, and the disadvantage of using unedited texts have long
stood in their way of personally acquainting themselves at
first hand with its contents and making them widely known.
The present edition of the text is expected to remove this
long felt want and help, within its own limits, towards the
focussing of light on the secular and practical side of early
Hindu civilisation which is yet dark in many of its aspects.
The work deals with diverse subjects of secular interest,
such as a few topics relating to polity, construction of
buildings and selection of sites therefor, articles of furniture,
precious stones, ornaments, weapons, draught and other
animals, vehicles, ships, ship-building, etc. The last two
subjects are very rarely met with and contribute not a little
to the value of the book.
The evidences brought together by the learned editor in
the Preface point to the eleventh century A. D. as the prob-
able and generally accepted time of its composition, and to
its reputed author king Bhoja to be no other than Bhoja
Pramāra of Dhār.
The text has been settled by the collation of three
manuscripts, one of which is an old transcript of the copy
used by Dr. Rajendralala Mitra in the first volume of his
Indo-Aryans. This transcript, it is hoped, has substantially
fulfilled our desire to use its original, and made up for our
inability to procure the latter for consultation.
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August, 1917.
CC-0. Gurukul Kangri Collection, Haridwar.