PREFATORY NOTE
In the present volume an important treatise on the canons of dramatic composition in early India is published for the first time in an English translation, with the text, explanatory notes, and an introductory account of the author and his work. As a contribution to our knowledge of Hindu dramaturgy, I am glad to accord the book a place in the Indo–Iranian Series, particularly as it comes from one who has long been associated with me as a co-worker in the Oriental field.
A. V. Williams Jackson.
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