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Another unfortunate incident alluded to in the Preface refers to the eye-trouble which started as the result of a very close examination and decipherment for several years of a huge quantity of very badly preserved old manuscripts on ‘Śilpa-śāstras written in five different scripts, and of some 50,000 lines of inscriptions.' Over and above this the eyes were severely exercised by the reading of three proofs of some 5,000 pages of these seven volumes, of which not only every word but also every letter and every line thereof had to be minutely scrutinized at least three times each. All this strain for the past thirty years aggravated the ailment to such an extent that the proofs of this last volume had to be read, despite medical advice, with one eye only, the other being unserviceable and requiring a risky and expensive operation which had to be postponed with a view to completing this work.