शिवपरिणय:- Siva Parinayah: A Poem in the Kashmiri Language (An Old and Rare Book)

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WITH much regret, I record the death of that excellent scholar Mahāmahopadhyāya Mukundarāma Sastri, which occurred in the year 1921, while this work was passing through the press. His knowledge of the Kashmiri language, ancient and modern, was, I believe, unique. I owe much to his teaching and to the help he gave me in the preparation of the chaya printed in the following pages and of the notes which formed the basis of the Kashmiri dictionary now being published by the Society.

In regard to other points I have nothing to add to the ad interim Preliminary Note issued with the first fasciculus of this work, except to express my regret that in the earlier pages, a great many Kashmiri types have broken off in the course of printing. These, so far as I have noted them, are entered in the List of Errata and explain its length. In the later pages, the printers have overcome this difficulty with some success. The spelling of certain Kashmiri words is doubtful, and till I had worked several times through the text, I did not always succeed in producing uniformity in this respect. On this ac count, after the List of Errata, I add a list of preferable spell- ings of certain words which escaped my eyes when correcting the proofs. None of these are of importance, but, in the interests of uniformity, I give them for the benefit of students of the language.