प्रियदर्शिका नाटिका (सम्राट हर्षवर्धन - चतुरङ्क शास्त्रीय नाटिका सान्वय सटीक)

PREFACE.
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This edition of S'ri Harshadeva's Priyadars'ika
is prepared on the same lines as my editions of the
Ratnavali and the Nàgànanda that have been
already published, with a view to supply the University
student with a text-book that will meet all his
requirements. Care has also been taken to make
the book useful to the general reader as well. A
brief but sufficiently explanatory new commentary
in Sanskrit has been added containing the solutions of
difficult compounds, derivations of difficult words, &c.
&c. Another feature of this edition is the Introduction
wherein all that is necessary to be known about
the author and the play has been succinctly put
together for ready reference and systematic study.
The figures of speech and the various technicalities
of Sanskrit dramaturgy are not given (except in a
few cases) as they are not of much use to the
junior University students. I have used the editions
of Jivananda Vidyasagar, V. D. Gadre (1884),
Pandit R. V. Krisnamacharia: (1906), T. V. Sree-
nivasachariar (1908) and that published by the
Columbia University 1923; and I am beholden to
the editors of all these for help of one kind or another
derived from them, specially to those of the last
mentioned work. My thanks are also due to Mr.
V. S. Bhàndàre B. A. S. T. C. who helped me in writing
out the latter part of the introduction. Any suggestions
as to improvement &c. will be gratefully received.
BOMBAY, }
June, 1928. } M. R. KALE.