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Preface
The other difficult problem arose from the use of the word lihiya' or its Sanskrit equivalent likhita' at the end of some works. So I had to ascertain whether the word meant " composed " or " written ".
A few word-chronograms were like a hard nut to crack when words signifying two different numbers formed their constituents. So if I have gone astray in making my way through any one or more of these labyrinths I request the savants to put me on the right tract so that I can gratefully take due notice in Part V.
To complete Vol. XVII, it now remains to publish the nine appendices along with one more prepared during this decade. It is a “list of word-chronograms". Some of these refer to the dates of compositions and some to the dates of Mss., and there are others besides these which are met with at times in the body of big colophons. Thus there are three groups. It was possible to incorporate the first group in Appendix IV and the second in App. VI, but the third was remaining unrecorded. To avoid this omission and in order to present a comprehensive record of all three, I have prepared this separate App. It is numbered as VI and hence the sixth is renumbered as V and the fifth as X.
In the end I take this opportunity of thanking Dr. Dandekar who like the late Dr. V. S. Sukthankar has tried his best to expedite the publication of this part. I also solicit the kind indulgence of scholars for whatever discrepancies that might have crept in in these four parts.
Gopipura, Surat 26th September 1948
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Hiralal R. Kapadia
