(4) परमार्थसोपान Dohas, my student, Mr. B. R. Kulkarni, M.A. now Lecturer at R. P. D. College, Belgaum, prepared the earliest draft embodying till 1946, 75 Padas 55 Dohas, a few of which were made use of by the present writer in his Kaushika lectures at Poona under the chairmanship of his University colleague, Shri B. G. Kher, then Chief Minister of Bombay, as well as in his Gujerat Research Institute lectures under the chairmanship of his respected friend Shri G. V. Mavlankar, President of the Legislative Assembly. These Padas and Dohas were being constantly added to, to make a century each, when I asked Mr. Awadh Raj Misra, a student of M. A. Philosophy Class at Allahabad, who was well-versed in Hindi and English, to attempt an annotation of them. Later, in order to do full justice to the completion of the work, I had to ask Pandit Shuklaji, Dr. Dhirendra Verma, and Dr. Mataprasad Gupta to suggest to me a scholar who would do the work of annotation under my supervision, and on their recommendation I asked Mr. M. B. Jaiswal, M. A. of the Hindi Department, Allahabad, to complete the work of annotation begun by Mr. Awadh Raj Misra, Mr Jaiswal also undertook, at my instance, the important task of paraphrasing the Padas and Dohas, and successfully carried it out. Another of my M. A. students Mr. Pralhad H. Kulkarni wrote out accurately the entire text of the Padas and Dohas along with their paraphrase and annota- tions written by Mr. Jaiswal, so as to make them
