PREFACE
This publication contains the "Aranya and "Kishkindha Kandas of Katta Varadaraju's Dwipada Ramayanamu. They are issued in continuation of our prior publication of "Bala" "Ayodhya" Kandas issued last year. We hope this publication will receive the same appreciation from the public and the press as the prior one has had.
The subsequent Kandas are being printed and will soon be issued
Our thinks are due to the Editor, Sri N. Venkata Rao, Head of the of Department of Telugu, University of Madras for his valuable services in editing the work and to Sri A. Mahadeva Sastri and Sri V Sundara Sarma, the Telugu Pandits of our library for carefully going through the original and preparing a correct copy for the edition.
We are grateful to the Government of Madras for their timely grants that have enabled us to publish this and other valuable manuscripts of the Library. We must thank also the Ratnam Press, Madras, for the neatness and despatch with which they have executed the printing of this publication.
S GOPALAN,
Honorary Secretary,
T M S S V Library Committee
