षोडश ग्रन्थाः (महाप्रभु वल्लभाचार्य - पुष्टिमार्ग सिद्धान्त एवं सान्वय हिन्दी व्याख्या)

There is not much difference in the text of the present work except a slight variation in the order of the verse 4 and 5. S'rī Raghunathaji and Pitambarji read the 5th verse after the first half of the 4th. In the 6th verse Raghunathaji reads मार्गेकत्वेन instead of मार्गेकत्वेपि. In 16th verse instead of फलं त्वत्र, Kalyanarayji and others read फलमत्र. In 19th verse रोगाद्युपद्रवः is read in plural by Pitambarji. Some read लौकिकत्वं वैदिकत्वं in inverse order. In verse 25th Pitambarji reads तेन युज्यते instead of तैर्न युज्यते. Besides these there does not appear to be any material difference in the readings of the text. None of the commentaries except the last has been printed before. No other commentary is known to exist other than the four which are printed here. The text of all the four commentaries is based on old and reliable MSS. The text of S'rī Vallabha alias Gokulnathaji commentary is chiefly based on six MSS, two of which were recieved from Pandit Gattulalaji's Library, one from S'rī Vallabhalalji Maharaja of Kāmā, one from S'rī Gokulnathaji Maharaja of Bombay, one from S'rī Ranchhodlalji of Bombay, one from Bhandarkar Research Institute. Raghu- nathaji's tika is based on three MSS; one from Gattulalaji's Library, one from Bhandarkar Research Institute and one from S'ri Mathures'aji's Temple at Kotah. S'rī Kalyanrayaji's tika is similarly based on six or seven MSS. derived from the sources mentioned above. Pitambarji's tika is based on six MSS; and one printed copy of Pandit Balabhadra S'arma. Out of these six two were recieved from S'rī Gokuladhis'aji's Mandir of Bombay, the remaining were received from sources mentioned above. A perusal of the six MSS. of S'rī Pitambarji's commentary reveals the fact that the learned author has revised his tika some time after he wrote the same. Purushottamji was a great authority in the Sampradaya, hence both the original and revised versions of this tika became current in the Sampradaya. Many of the readings noticed by Pandit Balabhadra in the foot-notes of his edition are due to this fact. We have however not thought it fit to perpetuate those readings of the original draft which the learned author himself did not retain in the revised version. On the whole the MSS. were tolerably good. We are much obliged to all gentlemen and institutions who have been kind enough to help us as above.

As the concluding portion of this work is missing, we are not in a position to know the exact name given by the author to this work. Some Scholars have named this work पुष्टिप्रवाहमर्यादाभेद, and there is great plausibility in that selection, but the invariably uniform 'इतिश्रीपुष्टिप्रवाहमर्यादाविवृति' in all the MSS. seen has inclined us to adopt पुष्टिप्रवाहमर्यादा as the name of this work without the addition of the word भेद.

The funds for the publication of this work have been supplied by one of our collaborators Mr. Dhirajlal Vrajdas Sankalia in the happy memory of the Wedding- Ceremony of his eldest son Mr. Natvarlal.

With feeling of Joy we offer this fruit of our labour of love at the Lotus-feet of Lord S'rī Krishna.

$\left.{l}Bombay, 3rd-3-1925.\right}$ \hspace{4cm} M. T. Telivala.