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It is not too much to say that in the production of this great work in its present form Dr. Acharya has had to surmount myriads of difficulties, and he has apparently done so with remarkable success. No one would undertake a task of this magnitude except as a labour of love, for it is obvious that there could be no material return at all commensurate with the amount of work involved, covering as it has done in this case a period of seventeen years. When we remember other exacting duties which must fall to the lot of the Head of the Sanskrit Department (who is also the Dean of the Faculty of Arts) in a modern university, it is astonishing that Professor Acharya should have been able to accomplish his task so successfully. To decipher worn out manuscripts and to translate the technical terms into their English equivalent are alone worthy of great praise. But to illustrate the text with so many carefully-selected and well-executed sketches, diagrams and measured drawings is indeed a colossal achievement.