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For his very encouraging and generous review of the earlier volumes and for affording me all facilities to undertake extensive tours year after year, I shall ever remain grateful to one of the greatest orientialists, Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Ganganath Jha, M.A., D.LITT., LL.D., until recently Vice-Chancellor of Allahabad University. To my esteemed colleague, Professor C. D. Thompson, M.A., the head of our Economics Department, I am grateful for many linguistic and textual improvements of the architectural section, the penultimate proof of which he revised with great interest. I am grateful to another amateur archaeologist, Mr. P. C. Barat, B.A., for comparing some proofs and suggesting certain improvements; and to Messrs. S. C. Mukherji and N. K. Dasgupta, M.A., B.L., for their valuable assistance in arranging and comparing the index slips, which I prepared myself. My gratitude is due to my colleagues of the Sanskrit Department, Dr. B. R. Saksena, M.A., D.LITT., Dr. Umesh Misra, M.A., D.LITT., Pandit K. Chattopadhyaya, M.A., and Pandit Raghubar Mithulal Shastri, M.A., M.O.L., for their scholarly interest, friendly sympathy, encouraging appreciation, and various assistance from time to time. Not only for general encouragement, but also for valuable suggestions and constructive criticism of the earlier volumes, I am grateful to the reviewers whose opinions are quoted at the end of this volume.