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

PREFACE. ————— 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.