(2) परमार्थसोपानं the names of Shri Paramatma Prakash, M. A. of Dehra Dun, Shri N. N. Chatterjee, M. A. of Khandwa, Shri. S. P. Tiwari, M. A., of Kanpur, Shri Subramanyam Gurti, M. A., the Andhra-Hindi Scholar of Daraganj, and, in particular, Shri Ram Narayan Pande, M.A., B. Com., of Lucknow, who was a keen student of Tulsidas. One of my students, Shri Hari Shankar Gautam, B. A., who is now a Captain in the Army, used to read spiri- tual songs with me once every week, and a few good poems in this volume are due to his keen literary and spiritual interest. A greater interest was created in me by the appreciation of the collection of songs, which I was making, by my former students and now Professors, Girish Chan- dra Srivastava, Sukhadev Chaube, Shiva Shankar Roy, Chandradhar Sharma, Ramanand Tiwari, and O. B. L. Kapoor. My respected friend Princi- pal Devi Prasad Shukla of the Malaviya College of Allahabad, the keen student of Kabirite litera- ture Pandit Udaya Shankar Shastri of Banaras, the Law Professor of Hindu University Prof. Vyas, Shri Jagannath Prasad, the retired Kabi- rite Registrar of Co-operative Societies, U. P., my relative Sardar Annasaheb Apte of Gwalior, Professors R. N. Kaul and Ali Mahdi Khan gave me a new impetus by putting me in possession of a few excellent Padas and Dohas. The late Shri Munshi Ishwar Sharan, Prof. Baldev Upadhyaya of Banaras, and Shri Laxmi Narain Misra of the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, showed great satis-
