The Development of Hindu Iconography c3.6

c3.6

I shall fail in my duty if I do not express here my gratefulness to a number of persons who helped me considerably in seeing this edition through the press. Professor Haridas Bhattacharyya, lately of the Hindu University, Banaras, kindly looked through the proofs of the first eight chapters very carefully and helped me in correcting many misprints and slips; his sad death two months ago has created a void in the field of scholarship, and it has been a matter of personal loss to me. Shri S. K. Saraswati kindly read the final proofs of the added chapters and looked through the arrangement of the plates. Mrs. Devala Mitra, one of my former students and now an Assistant Superintendent in the Archaeological Department of India, kindly checked the references given in the first eight chapters and found out some mistakes which have been put in the errata. Shri Bratindranath Mukherjee, one of my students in the Sixth-Year class, has been of some help to me in the preparation of the index. I am deeply grateful to all of them, without whose assistance it would have been very difficult, if not impossible, for me to see this enlarged edition through the press. My cordial thanks are also due to Sri Sibendranath Kanjilal, the Superintendent of the Calcutta University Press, and his staff, particularly to Sri Asutosh Bhattacharyya, B.A., the Head Proof Reader, for their unfailing courtesy to me and their prompt and earnest attention to my work. Lastly, I should like to express my gratitude to Sri S. C. Ghosh, the Treasurer, and Sri D. Chakravarti, the Registrar of the University of Calcutta, for the interest taken by them in the publication of this edition. The book was to have come out in the month of December, 1955; I regret that due to some unforeseen circumstances its publication has been delayed.