काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

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translation. First among these comes Pandit Jayadeva Mishra,
Professor of Vyākaraṇa in the “Darbhanga Pāṭhashālā,” Benares, from
whom I got my first lessons in Kāvya-Prakāsha, and then Rai Bahadur
Pramadā Dāsa Mittra of Benares, already mentioned, who not only
encouraged me in the work, but also took upon himself the trouble
of correcting an important portion of it. My thanks are also due to
my honoured tutor, late Mr. Arthur Venis, M. A., Principal of the
Queen’s College, Benares, without whose encouraging words and
example, I should probably have never ventured upon literary work,
and to whose kind help is due the publication of the present trans-
lation. The last person, but not the least, whom I cannot leave un-
mentioned, is Babu Govinda-Dāsa of Benares, who has ever been the
guiding spirit of literary life
DARBHANGA $\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad$ GANGĀNĀTHA JHĀ.
April, 1918