Niti Kalptaru

SR No.: 020510
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: V P Mahajan
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
Publication Year: 1956
Total Pages: 302
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 12 MB

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FOREWORD
The Post-graduate and Research Department of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute was started in 1927 with a view to preparing candidates for post-graduate degrees in Sanskrit and Ancient Indian Culture of the Bombay University and training young scholars in scientific methods of research. When, in 1948, the University of Poona came into existence, this Department of the Institute was completely reorganised and a full-time Director and some additional staff was appointed. Soon the University recognised the Department as one of its Constituent Post-graduate Institutions. Since then the members of the staff of the Department have been actively participating in the work of post-graduate instruction and guidance in Sanskrit and Ancient Indian Culture organised by the University.
Apart from this normal work, the Department has undertaken various other academic projects in the field of Sanskrit research, such as, collection of manuscripts, critical editions of unpublished Sanskrit and Prakrit texts, new editions of texts which have become unavailable, and preparation of original monographs on Indological subjects. As this work began to show some progress, the authorities of the Institute thought it fit to start a new series of publications called the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Post-graduate and Research Department Series', in which mainly the works written and edited by teachers and students in the Department were to be published. Accordingly, this edition of the Nitikalpataru prepared by Dr. V. P. Mahajan is now being issued as the first Volume in that Series.
From 1952 to 1954, Dr. Mahajan worked in the Post-graduate and Research Department for his Doctorate on "Kṣemendra: Author-Study". In the course of his work, he came
across