History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c98: Acknowledgments and Thanks

History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c98

Language: English

Acknowledgments and Thanks

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During the last thirty-seven years from 1925 to this day I have received from hundreds of friends and others, institutions and books, assistance of various kinds Now that this undertaking is drawing to a close, I should like to mention with gratitude all of them that I can remember. In the Prefaces to the several volumes of this History I have acknowledged the help received from individuals in writing the separate volumes Here at the end of the whole work, I shall try to mention in one place the Institutions, the series of books and individuals to whom I have been indebted.

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INSTITUTIONS

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Among Institutions the first place must be assigned to the Library of the Bombay Asiatic Society (formerly called Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society). It was in this Library that I passed several hours almost every day (except on holidays), when I was in Bombay. It has also a large collection of Sanskrit Mss. The materials for the first four volumes were collected mainly in the rooms of this Library. I owe a deep debt of gratitude to this Library and to all persons in the service of the Library from the highest to the lowest. I must next mention the Library of the Bombay University, which was also of great use to me. The Library of the Bombay Asiatic Society is a circulating Library with a large membership, but the Bombay University Library permits only the members of the Senate to have books issued to them for reading at home. I could secure books urgently needed by me from this Library, when I could not get them from the Asiatic Society's Library (because some members had taken them). Besides, it possesses a large number of Sanskrit Mss. I tender my thanks to the Bombay University and its Library, to the staff of the Library and particularly to Mr. D. N. Marshall, the present Librarian. Since November 1953 when I was nominated a member of Parliament (Rājyasabhā) by the President of India, two more Libraries became available to me. One was the Library of Parliament which contains a large number of books on many subjects including Sanskrit Literature, Ancient Indian History, and the Library of the Archaeological Department in New Delhi. I thank the staff of the Parliament Library. Dr. A. Ghosh, Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India, made special arrangements for seating me in the Archaeological Library and made me a corresponding member. Dr. Chhabra, Joint Director of that Department, also was very kind and helpful. I am under great obligations to these high Officers. When at the end of 1953, I went to the Library of the Archaeological Department, the Librarian was a young man, Shri L. G. Parab, a double M. A. of the Bombay University, a B. T. and holder of a diploma in Librarianship. He is a very industrious and enthusiastic young Librarian, who made great efforts to keep the Library full of Sanskrit books, full of books both on ancient and medieval history of India and of other countries, and of books on all archaeological studies, such as architecture, iconography and painting, kept the Library uptodate and took a keen interest in my work and a great deal of trouble to accommodate me in various ways (too many to mention) from 1954 to the present day. Much of the material for this lengthy 5th volume was collected in the Archaeological Library and a good deal of the text also was written there. I am under a deep debt of gratitude to Mr Parab and also thank all his assistants, particularly Messrs. Kapur and Mr. A. S. Dhavle and his Jamadar, Bhagavat Sahai.

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Then I must mention certain Series of books and certain Presses that have printed and published a large number of books, such as the Ānandāśrama series (Poona), the Bibliotheca Indica Series the Bombay Sanskrit Series, the Kāvyamālā and the Nirnayasāgar Press, Calcutta Oriental Series, Chowkhamba S. Series, Cultural Heritage of India, volumes I-IV (Calcutta), the Gujarati Press and its Sanskrit Series, the Gaikwad Oriental Series (Baroda), Haridas Sanskrit Series (Benaras), Harvard Oriental Series, Kashi Sanskrit Series, Jivanand Vidyasāgar's numerous publications, Prājñapāthaśālā Mandala's volumes of Dharmakośa and Mīmāṁsā-kośa (Wai), Kashmir Sanskrit Series, the Manikyachandra Digambar Jain Series, Jain Grantha-mala Series, Pali Texts Society's Series, Prince of Wales Sarasvatibhavana Series of texts and Studies, Pandit S D. Satavalekar's Series of Vedic Saṁhitās, Sacred Books of the East Series (50 valumes including the valuable Index Volume), St. Petersburg Dictionary by Böhtlingk and Roth, the Vaidika Saṁśodhana-mandal's volume of 18 Upaniṣads with valuable footnotes and Index (Poona), Trivandrum S. Series, Vedic Index (in two volumes) of Macdonell and Keith, Vijianagram S Series.

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Among periodicals I must mention, the Epigraphia Indica, the Indian Antiquary and those indexed under the word 'Journal'.

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I am highly obliged to many scholars who contributed appreciative and encouraging reviews in several journals and newspapers. The first and third volumes received the largest number of reviews. I shall mention only a few for each volume. The first was reviewed in the Bombay Law Reporter, volume 32 (Journal pp. 94-95), in J. A O S for 1931 volume 61 pp. 80-84 by Prof. Hopkins, in JRAS. for 1932 pp. 158-161 by Prof. S V. Fitzgerald, I. H. Q.

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for 1932, pp. 805–807 by Amareshwar Thakur, J. of Oriental Research, Madras, for 1931 pp. 231–233 by Prof. Kuppuswami Sastri, by the 'Kesari' of Poona in three issues dated 7th, 10th, 14th March 1931 (in Marathi); Volume II was reviewed by Prof. K. V. Rangaswami Aiyangar in very eulogistic terms in Adyar Library Bulletin for 1944 pp. 75–86, in J. R. A. S. for 1942 pp. 106–107 by Prof Brough; Vol. III was reviewed in "Indian Culture" by Dr. B. C. Law, Volume XIII for 1947 pp. 119–23, in Journal Asiatique for 1948, vol. 236 pp. 149–150 by Prof. L. Renou' and also in his book "Sanskrit et Culture" (Paris, 1950) pp. 126–136, in J. A. O. S. Vol. 67 pp. 232–234 by Dr. Ludwik Sternbach, in M. L. J. Vol. 93 for 1947 (Journal pp. 33–38), in newspaper "Hindu" of 25. 5. 1947 (Madras) by Prof. K. V. Rangaswami Aiyangar, in Bom. Law Reporter for January 1947 (Journal pp. 13–15), in the "Bombay Chronicle" of 9-2-1947 by Mr. Prabhu and in the 'Times of India' of 13. 6. 1947, by Mr. N. C Kelkar in "Kesari" of 2nd and 5th December 1947, in 'Prabhāt' (a Marathi newspaper) in seven issues in March and May 1947 by Shri N. G. Chapekar; Volume IV was reviewed at some length by Prof. Hans Losch of Bonn in Z. D. M. G. Volume 107 pp. 217–221, and in 56 Bom. L. R. (1954 pp. 34–35 Journal), in the Journal of the Ganganath Jha Research Institute, volume X pp. 168–172, in J. A. O. S. Vol. 74, pp. 271–273 by Dr. Sternbach, in the Bulletin of the London School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 17, part 3 for October 1955 pp. 620–21 and in the "Kesari" of 26th September 1954 by Mr. J. S. Karandikar; Volume V part I was reviewed in J. A. O. S. for 1959 by Dr. Sternbach, in J. R. A. S. 1960 pp. 193–194 by Dr. Derrett Volumes I to IV were reviewed by Prof. V I Kalyanov in the Quarterly Journal of the Indo-Soviet Cultural Society, volume VII No. 4 pp. 7–10 (1960) The number of Individual authors whose works I read or whom I consulted in 37 years may run into thousands Authors and works referred to only once or twice are not collected here, but they have been mentioned in the several separate Indices to the five volumes. Only very eminent writers or authors who wrote several valuable works and papers or were personally consulted are named below.

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Abhyankar, Vasudevasastri (M. M. Pandit); Prof. K. V. Abhyankar (son of the preceding); Aiyangar (Krishna), (Prof.) K V. Rangaswami Aiyangar, Dr. Krishnaswamy Aiyangar, Dr.

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A S. Altekar, Arthur Avalon (Sir. John Woodroffe), Mr M. B. Arte, Srī Aurobindo, Prof P. V. Bapat, Shri N C Bapat, Prof A. L. Basham, Mr Y A Bhat, Dr S. K. Belvalkar, Pandit Bhagavad-datta, Dr D R. Bhandarkar, Prof G H. Bhatt, Mr (and now Dr.) Bhabatosh Bhattacharya, Dr Benoyatosh Bhattacharya, M. Bloomfield, G. Buhler, A Burnell, Dr Caland, Prof. Chintaharan Chakravarti, M. M Cakravarty, Mr. N G Chapekar, Mr. M A. Chinnaswami Sastry, H T Colebrooke, A Coomaraswamy, E. B Cowell, Dr K L Daftari, Dr. R. N. Dandekar, Dr. Matilal Das, Prof Das Gupta, Datar Chintaman Sastri, T W. Rhys Davids, Prof S. K De, Paul Deussen, Dr (Miss) Indu Dike, Mr. D. B Diskalkar, Mr P. C. Divanji, Shri R R. Diwakar, Pandit K S Dravid (Sāmaveda expert), Prof P. E Dumont, Will Durant, M. N. Dutt, Prof. Edgerton, Julius Eggeling, V. Fausboll, Prof. Filliozat, J F. Fleet, A A Fuhrer, Dr. D Gaastra, Dr. G. S, Gai, Pandit T. Ganapati Sastri, R Garbe, G T. Garrat, Dr. U. N. Ghoshal, Dr G. S Ghurye, Prof P. K. Gode, Prof. N. A. Gore, M. M. Gopinath Kaviraj, G. Gorer, H H Gowen, R T. Griffith, F. Hall, Martin Haug, Dr. R. C Hazra, A. Hillebrandt, Prof. M Hiriyanna, Dr. R Hoernle, Prof. Hopkins, R E Hume, Col. G A Jacob, H Jacobi, W. James, K. P Jayaswal, Dr. Ganganath Jha, Julius Jolly, Dr B S. Joshi, Tarkatīrtha Laksmana Sāstri Joshi, Mr. S. N, Joshi (Poona), Pandit Kamalkrishna Smrititirtha, Mr S. L. Katre Dr. S. M. Katre, A. B Keith, H. Kern, Mr. Kesavan (National Library, Calcutta), Dr S V Ketkar, Swami Kevalānanda, Mr. G. H Khare, Pandit Balacharya Khuperkar, F. Kielhorn, W. Kirfel, Tarkatīrtha Raghunath Shastri Kokje, Sten Konow, Prof Kunhan Raja, Prof. Kuppuswami Sastri, Shri Kuvalayānanda, Dr. B C. Law, Sylvain Levi, H. Luders, A A. Macdonell, MacTaggart, Dr. R C. Majumdar, V. N Mandlik, Prof. Mangal Deva Shastri, Sir R P Masani, F. Max-Muller, Dr. V. V. Mirashi, Rajendralal Mitra, Dr. M M. Umesha Mishra, Dr. R K. Mukerji, Mr. Y. M. Mulay Prof Neugebauer, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, K. L Ogale, Hermann Oldenberg, Pandit J. S. Pade, Shankar Pandurang Pandit, Prof A. M Paramasivanandan, Prof. V. G. Paranjape, Peter Peterson, A S Pringle-Pattison, Mr P M. Purandare, Dr. A. D Pusalker, Dr. S Radhakrishnan, Rangacharya Reddi Shastri, Dr V Raghavan, V. K Rajwade, Prof. R D. Ranade, Prof P T Raju, Prof. L Renou, R Roth, Mr R. S Sarna Prof G. Sarton, Miss Kunda Sathe (now Mrs.

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Savkar ), P. P. S. Sastrı, Pandit Aıyanath Sastri, Dr. Dakshınaranjan Shastri, M. M. Srıdhar Sastrı Pathak, Satyavrata Sāmaśramı, Mr. S. N. Savadı, Pandıt Srījıva Nyāyatīrtha, Pandıt V. A Ramswamı Sastrı, Pandıt S. D. Satavalekar, R. Sham Sastri, V. A. Smith, Prof. P. A. Sorokın, Dr Sternbach, Pandıt Sudhakar Dwıvedı, Dr. V. S. Sukthankar, Dr. A. Schweitzer, W. W. Tarn, C. H. Tawney, R H. Tawney, K. T. Telang, G. Thıbaut, K. P Trıvedı, Prof. A. N. Upadhye, Prof. H. D. Velankar, Swamı Vıvekānanda, Prof. A. R. Wadıa, A. Weber, H. G. Wells, W. D. Whitney, Monıer Wıllıams, H. H. Wılson, M. Wınternıtz, R. C. Zaehner, H. Zımmer.

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I beg to be pardoned if, through loss of memory, I have omitted the names of persons to whom I have been indebted for advice, guidance or information.

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