पृष्ठम्:तत्त्वसङ्ख्यानम्.pdf/5

"OERS NVNVOERD I am very glad to introduce to the public the present work of Tattvasankhyana by Sri Madhvacharya which is now issued as one of the volumes in the series with the gloss of Sri Jayatirtha and the commentaries of Sri Vijayindratirtha and Rotti Venkatabhatta. This is the first work on Dvaita philosophy to be published in the series and the circumstances of its publication may be mentioned in brief. The S. V. Oriental College has been in existence for the last seventy years but with the starting of the S. V. Oriental Institute, it was included in the latter and placed under the supervision of the Director of the Institute. One of the objects of the arrangement was to encourage the Lecturers of the College to undertake research work following the Readers in the Institute. Some of the Pandits took up the cue and produced work reflecting credit on the authors thereof. The present work is one of the fruits, though not the first of the effort. Pandit R. Ramamurti Sarma, the Senior Vyakarana Lecturer in the College, took up a work of Dvaita Philosophy for editing. He studied Vyakarana in the College and later Dvaita Philosophy, both under his father-in-law Mahāmahopādhyāya Sri S. SetumadhaVacharya, Professor of Vyakarana and attained proficiency in the two sciences. He is therefore the proper person to edit the work both by virtue of his scholarship and of his persuasion. ln ten stanzas, the work sets forth and explains the nature of the universe so that the reader may