Purva-Mimamsa in its Sources c3.5

c3.5

5. To Pandit Amaranatha Jha, I am indebted in the publication of this volume more than I can say. From the very inception of the idea of the publication, his help in the matter has been immense. I have to thank him for having kindly consented to my request to write an Introductory Note to this volume. If the revered Panditji had been living, no doubt he would have done it himself, as he did in the case of the Allahabad University publication of his Vedānta Lectures. Nevertheless, as an ancient Indian adage would have it, “आत्मा वै पुत्रनामासि” has a great truth underlying it, and it is only in the fitness of things that a person so highly situated as Pandit Amaranatha Jha, so filial, so devoted and so reverential to his father's life-work, should represent the Panditji in a personal Introductory Note to this volume. Pandit Kśetresha Chandra Chattopādhyāya has been the *primum movens* of this publication. Had it not been for him, it would not have been possible to arrange so adequately for the printing of this difficult work, and it would be hard to exaggerate the very keen interest which he has taken throughout the whole course of its publication. Dr. Umesha Mishra, like a loyal pupil and Teacher's son of the Panditji, has at least partly paid his debt to his Teacher by the Critical Bibliographical Note which he has written for the volume, and the framework of which Panditji had seen and approved of during his life-time. Dr. Umesha Mishra's reference to the Maharashtra Pandit Gāgābhaṭṭa, the Coronation Preceptor of Shivaji, who completed the Śloka-vārttika of Kumārila, would please all Maharashtra scholars not a little. The Indian Press have accomplished this task in the entire spirit of a labour of love. They have never looked at this publication from the business point of view. They understood the greatness of this work of the revered Panditji, and they have given us of their best in the production of this volume. A work like this represents, in true Mīmāṃsā style, a great work of Sacrifice. Different *Ritviks*, representing different functions, are required for the completion of such a Sacrifice; and to all the above our deepest thanks are due for the consummation of the *Avabhṛitha* ceremony which has thus been reached through their combined and devout assistance.