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iii K. Apparao, B.A., B.L., P. Raimaswamy, M.A., and M. Ramamurthi—a remarkable trio of chithragupthas, the first of the earlier and the last two of the later years at Cocanada, who, even while students, accomplished the trying task with an almost incredible degree of efficiency equalled only by their enthusiasm. All gratitude be to them for the precious materials kindly made available for such compiling, revising and editing as could be rushed through within hardly a month’s time and amidst pressing pre-occupations! It is literally a fact that the deliverances, as thus reported, have never at any stage passed through the hands, or so much as come before the eye, of the Master himself—not even for the present purpose; and consequently, he will read them only now for the first time with the general public. As such, it cannot but be that the work has suffered in the attempt, at this distance of time, to do it up wherever necessary on account of the various blanks and blunders incidental to the said rough method of reproduction. Will the indulgent reader overlook all the resultant