Containing The Vairagya, Mumukshu, Prakaranas and The Utpatti Khanda to Chapter L. _Translated from the original Sanskrit_ _By_ VIHARI-LALA MITRA =Distributed By:= =D K Publishers Distributors P Ltd.= 1, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi-110002 Phones: 3278368, 3261465 Fax: 3264368 visit us at: www.dkpdindia.com e-mail: dkpd@del3.vsnl.net.in Reprinted in =LPP= 1999 ISBN 81-7536-179-4 (set) ISBN 81-7536-180-8 (vol. 1) =Published By:= =Low Price Publications= B-2, Vardhaman Palace, Nimri Commercial Centre, Ashok Vihar Phase-IV, Delhi-110052 Phone: 7401672 visit us at: www.lppindia.com e-mail: lpp@nde.vsnl.net.in =Printed At:= D K Fine Art Press P Ltd. Delhi-110052 =PRINTED IN INDIA= PREFACE. In this age of the cultivation of universal learning and its investigation into the deep recesses of the dead languages of antiquity, when the literati of both continents are so sedulously employed in exploring the rich and almost inexhaustible mines of the ancient literature of this country, it has given an impetus to the philanthropy of our wise and benign Government to the institution of a searching enquiry into the sacred language of this land. And when the restoration of the long lost works of its venerable sages and authors through the instrumentality of the greatest bibliomaniac savants and linguists in the several Presidencies,[1] has led the literary Asiatic Societies of the East and West to the publication of the rarest and most valuable Sanskrit Manuscripts, it cannot be deemed preposterous in me to presume, to lay before the Public a work of no less merit and sanctity than any hitherto published.