PREFACE
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This publication contains the "Sundara Kanda" of Katta Varadaraju's Dvipada Ramayanamu. This is issued in continuation of our prior publication of "Bala" "Ayodhya" "Aranya" and "Kishkindha" Kandas. We hope this publication will receive the same appreciation from the public and the press as the prior ones have had.
The subsequent Kanda (Yuddha) is being printed and will soon be issued.
Our thanks are due to the editor Sri N. VENKATA RAO, Head of the Department of Telugu, University of Madras for his valuable services in editing the work and to Sri A. Mahadeva Sastry 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 this Library. We must thank also the Rathnam Press, Madras, for the neatness and despatch with which they have executed the printing of this publication.
S. GOPALAN.
Honorary Secretary.
Saraswati Mahal Library
TANJORE.
15–5–1952
