मानसार शिल्पशास्त्र (प्रसन्ना कुमार आचार्य - प्राचीन भारतीय स्थापत्य, नगर-नियोजन व मूर्ति-शिल्प महाकोश)

xxiv PREFACE
official correspondence concerning the publication during the past
ten years with the Oxford University Press; who, incidentally,
have been anxious to bring out a second edition of the two earlier
volumes since the first year of their publication.
My gratitude is due to Rai Bahadur Dayaram Sahni, M.A., the
present Director General of Archaeology, for his scholarly interest in
the work and his friendly appreciation during the past ten years;
and to Mr. K. N. Dikshit, M.A., the then Deputy Director General of
Archaeology, who used to come to my hotel at Simla and spent hours
in discussing various obstinate passages that baffled repeated attempts
at their interpretation.
For scholarly interest, friendly sympathy, encouraging appreci-
ation and various kinds of assistance from time to time I am grateful
to my colleagues Dr. Babu Ram Saksena, M.A., D.LITT., Dr. Umesh
Misra, M.A., D.LITT., Pandit Ketresh Chandra Chattopadhyaya, M.A.,
Pandit Raghubar Mithulal Shastri, M.A., M.O.L., and Miss Mathura
Narain Herlekar, M.A.
Not only for general encouragement, but also for valuable sugges-
tions and constructive criticism of the earlier volumes, I am grateful
to the reviewers whose opinions are quoted at the end of volume IV.
To Mr. D. W. Crighton, Superintendent, Printing and Stationery,
and to his compositors and readers I desire to express my gratitude
for the painstaking care and long forbearance and for their ever
sympathetic and kind treatment towards me. For his personal
interest in the work and for many useful suggestions and improvements
I am further indebted to Mr. Crighton who readily took the trouble
of revising this Preface.
P. K. ACHARYA.
UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD :
February 6, 1933.