Foreword It is a matter of great good fortune that a critical edition of Sabdaratna is now being made available for the first time by Sri V. L. Joshi. There are many problems connected with this text which will become apparent by a persual of these appendices. Scholars have often wondered and at times posed questions regarding the mutual relationship between Sabdaratna and Laghu- sabdaratna as also their authorship. Guesses have been made without relying on sound evidence. Sri Joshi has been able, with the critical study of Vaidyanatha Payagunde's Bhivaprakāja, to throw much welcome light on these problems, and established for the first time some semblance of order in these conflicting views. I am sure that the edition of Sabdaratna and these appendices which are being issued separately for the benefit of scholars will be welcomed by them in the same critical spirit in which they have been offered. I congratulate Sri Joshi on a piece of admirably painstaking work which will throw light on such a confused corner of medieval history and commend it to the notice of scholars of Sanskrit Grammar.
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