FOREWORD.
I have perused Pandit R. V. Krishamachariar's Harshacharita Laghu Sangraha which is a summary in Bana's words, of his brilliant Akhyayika. I am glad to be able to say that it will prove to be of good use to the Sanskrit students of the higher forms of Secondary Schools and of the lower classes in the pre-collegiate section of Advanced Sanskrit Schools in this province.
Bhatta-Bana's style is felt to be simply irrittating by alien critics, whose minds have not become attuned and adequately responsive to the charms of the Sanskrit Muse. But Indian Sahrdayas know well that Bana's creative genius has beautified the firmament of Sanskrit belles-lettres with two literary rainbows, one of the charming lunar type in the Kadambari and the other of the brilliant solar type in the Harshacharita. And the latter of them Mr. R. V. Krishnamachariar has now miniatured in an agreeable manner, in his Harsha Charita Laghu Sangraha, as he did in his Kadambari Laghu Sangraha in 1923, with reference to the former.
