Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c2.9

c2.9

I am very grateful to Dr. B. M. Barua, D. Lit. (London), of the Calcutta University, who gave me his best guidance in formulating the scheme of the work, and I am sure nothing will please him more than the continuation of the present work so as to give completeness to my accounts of Plants and Plant-life as in Indian treatises and traditions. I am also grateful to Mr. R. C. Adhikary, a great lover of ancient civilisation and things Indian, who has never failed to cheer me up with his valued friendship and helped me materially with suggestions and sound criticisms from time to time but for which my work would have been substantially poorer. My thanks are also due to the staff of the Calcutta University Press who have always been patient, courteous and helpful to me—a novice in the matter of publication. I should not conclude this preface without mentioning that my wife has all along associated herself with this humble pursuit of mine, specially in seeing the book through the press and preparing its contents together with the list of the plants mentioned in the text.