Atmatattva Vivek

Author(s): Udayanacharya, Vindheshwariprasad Dwivedi, Lakshman Shastri Dravida
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE
Retrospective
The present edition of the Ātmatattvaviveka together with three practically complete commentaries, was begun in 1907, and the first three fascicles were published respectively in 1907, 1914 and 1919. The editor was MM. Vindhyesvariprasada Dvivedin. He died after the issue of the third fascicle and further work on the edition remained in abeyance. In 1924 Pandit Lakshmana Sastri Dravida was commissioned to undertake its continuation. He produced a fourth and a fifth fascicle in 1924 and 1925, and died himself in 1931, after having seen through the press a further portion of the work up to page 800 of the present edition, though the balance of the work was by that time in galley proof. So delay again arose. During 1935, Dr. B. Ch. Chhabra was asked to continue the work by correcting the remaining galleys. He successfully did this under congiderable difficulty, to page 944 inclusive, leaving only four pages to be dealt with which, however, contained a postcolophon offering a curious problem which at the time could not be solved.
The press copy of the work up to the end was not completely in the possession of the Society's Office, and the various manuscripts from which the copy had been prepared were not at the disposal of the Society.
In order to avoid further delay the work is now published so far as the material in the possession of the Society's office permits, as the files of the correspondence with the previous editors afford no clues to any further material.
The first editor according to his remarks in foot-notes to pages 1, 3, 6 and 7 intended to write a comprehensive