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PREFACE
This the second volume, completes the work of Samarangana which runs up to a portion of the 83rd Adhyaya. It contains descriptions of Prasadas pertaining to Devas, statues made of goli, gilver etc., the art of painting, and are to be delineated in pictures and images, 64 kinds of Efa beginniog with Pataka and similar other topics, a detailed mention of which may be found in the contents attached.
Great difficulty lud to be experienced in bringing out thiis edition as no other manuscript was available than the one referred to in the preface to the first volume, which contains several errors and is in many places not legible. Proper substitutes for the errors have been proposed within interrogations and new readings for impure words and phrases suggested as far as possible by means of foot notes.
The subject matter being silpa, the work need not possess the characteristics of a literary work. Nevertheless it is remarkable for its sweet and simple hlavya style. It is for this reason that I will in the first volume that the author of the work is the same King Bhoja of Dhara who wrote Sringaraprakasa and veher works anl to whom is assignei a high place in the domain of Salitya.
It inay be said that, because the various machines such 28 the elephant machine, «loor keeper machine, iying machine etc., mentioned in the work, have not been either seen or heard of before, they are only products of imagination and not actual machines made and put into practical use. That is not s0; fur, even things which once existed might, in the long run, come to be considered as unreal on account of their disuse and things involving much labour, time and money may also get out of use very easily.
"Aho Shrut Gyanam
