A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1

I owe a debt far greater than I can express here, especially for the generous enthusiasm with which he Likely referring to Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, then Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University, who was a major patron of Indian scholarship. kindly agreed to accept this work for publication by Calcutta University. This plan would have been realized if circumstances had not changed the arrangement.

To the scholars of Indian philosophy who may honor me by reading my book and who may notice its inevitable shortcomings and defects, I can only offer a plea in the words of Hemacandra original: "Hemacandra"; a 12th-century Jain scholar and polymath known as the "Omniscient One of the Kali Age.":

Whatever has been said here that contradicts established principles or logic

Because of the dullness of my intellect,

May noble-minded people, putting aside any ill-feeling,

Kindly look upon this with grace and correct it.¹

original: "Pramāṇasiddhāntaviruddham atra / Yatkiñciduktam matimāndyadoṣāt / Mātsaryyam utsāryya tadāryyacittāḥ / Prasādam ādhāya viśodhayantu."

¹ May noble-minded scholars, instead of harboring ill feelings, kindly correct whatever errors have been committed here through the dullness of my intellect, whether in the form of wrong interpretations or misstatements.

S. D. Surendranath Dasgupta