Preface (5) suitable for the Press. Mr. Suresh Chandra Sharma M. A. Aligarh, now Lecturer in Meerut College, with the laudable gift of brevity and appreciation, summarised the exhaustive annotations, and Mr. Mohan Lal, M. A., who is now Lecturer in Jasvant College, Jodhpur, revised the entire paraphrase portion, and thus the copy was made completely ready for the Press. Mr. Prakasha Chandra Sharma of Banaras with untiring labour looked through the proofs of the text, the paraphrase, and the annotations at the Ganapati Sansthan Press, Sangli. - (d) Appendices on History and Rhetoric-- The great Hindi author Pandit Sukhadev Behari Misra, M. A., D. LITT., with great immanent spirituality, and with affectionate kindness, wrote for me the historical biography, in Hindi, of the Poet Saints included in this volume, and it is a matter of great regret to me that he did not live to see the present work published. He had already made a careful scrutiny of the entire text, para- phrase and annotations of the Paramartha Sopan immediately after printing, and made certain valu- able suggestions. Prof. R. B. Athavale, M. A. of Ahmedabad helped me greatly in preparing the material for assessing the contribution of the Hindi Saints to the science of Rhetoric appended to this volume, in which also I received help from Prof. S. J. Joshi, M. A. of the Banaras Hindu University. The historical biography of the Hindi
