वासवदत्ता (महाकवि सुबन्धु - श्लेष-प्रधान शास्त्रीय गद्यकाव्य सान्वय सटीक)

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corrections, particularly in the Introduction. In a very special
way my thanks are due also to Mr. Alexander Smith Cochran,
whose interest in the Columbia University Indo-Iranian Series
has rendered possible the printing of this particular volume.
My gratitude to my friend and teacher, Professor A. V. Wil-
liams Jackson—here editor as well—is more fittingly expressed
elsewhere within these covers. Suffice it to say that he read
with me word by word the second of the three drafts of this
translation, and that wellnigh every page bears some token of
his careful scholarship. And to one other—my wife—my deepest
obligations are due for whatsoever may be best in my work.
She has subjected every line to a most minute and unsparing
revision, besides taking upon herself the arduous task of pre-
paring my manuscript for the press. Her interest in the work
has never faltered, and to her criticism, at once most kindly and
most severe, I owe more than I can tell.
Louis H. Gray.
November 25, 1912.