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I hope this public acknowledgment of his services will help to preserve the memory of @ scholar who was worthy to maintain the learned traditions of the land of S‘arada,

It would have been impossible for me to prepare the work now completed without the leisure granted to me in addition to my vacation, in the years 1895, 1896, and 1898. I owe this important ecncession to the liberality of the Kashmir Darbar and the Punjab University which jointly bore the cost involved by my ‘deputation’ For the material assistance thus rendered to me I wish to record here the expression of my sincere gratitode.

His Highness the Maharaja and th already given a proof of their generaus lehours by sanctioning in 1891 a grant towards the publication of the Chvonicle which had materially facilitated the issue of my edition of the text, and the collection of the muterials required for the commentary. In connection with the help I have received on the part of the Darbar, I must record my sincere thanks to Colonel D. W. 1K. Bann, c.8.1,, Mr. H.S. Barnes, c.s.1., and Colonel Sir A, TALUOT, K.C.1.E., successive Residents in Kashmir, who were all equally ready to grant me the benefit of their support. To Mr. W. R. Lawgence, C.L.E., late Settlement-Commissioner of Kashmir and the author of the best account of the modern conditions of the Valley, I offer my grateful acknowledgments for his kind help and advice in regard to the steps which first led to my deputation.

T owe a similar debt of gratitude to the late Vice-Chancellors of the Punjab University, Sir W. H. Rartiean, x7, 0.0, and Sir Cuantes A. Rok, ET., LL.D. who by their recommendations materially aided me in obtaining the concession already referred to.

Owing to my distance from the printers and for other reasons the passing of the work through the press has involved a heavy amount of labour. I, therefore, feel particularly grateful for the good offices of those who at various stages of the work have lent me a helping band in the revision of proofs. Apart from Professor Bihler’s help already mentioned I received for portions of the first volume the assistance of Miss Tourmi-Sutre, Librarion of Manchester College, Oxford, oud Dr. J. Mortson. For the whole of the second volume and the Introduction I benefited by the help and advice of my friend, Professor T. W. ARNOLD, of the Government College, Labore, who has generously sacrificed to the task much hard-earned leisure, As it was impossible to arrange that more than single proofs should reach me in India, my friend Dr. M. WinreRwiT2, with the publishers’ assent, kindly undertook the reading of all final revisions. I owe it largely to his care if the number of misprints proves smaller than might. be anticipated from the diffi- culties with which I hed often to contend in reading proofs while on tour or in the widst of official business.

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