Acme Series 2 aft aquerce softar watata: Lad g vg apsdapiy (@@SGar sargyin si apensuyio) Be OGuart angio. Cu. progpiyedior sjutast NMnb Bve. Dee loa, DNA Sole Selling Agent: B. S. & F. MART High Class Stationers, 113, Armenian St., G. T., Madras. Copy right } 1949 [ Reserved,esau Bary: 1500. Rs. 1-8-0 ‘ee A th sy oor Boor uf 63 6s t il BOG. 5 STrUmMs sole 0 “4 f ero wir LIL OT LD i . 0 tb eS So SSeSseaass sam uUBLyflm» Guppgi.+ Foreword — The Laghustuti is a short devotional poem of twenty verses _ with a concluding 2st verse in Sardulavikridita metre, addressed to the Goddess Sarasvati. In this short poem the author has brought in all the chief doctrines of the Sakta system in a very lucid way. The text with an elaborate commentary by Raghavananda has ‘been already published ° in the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series aa No.’ LX. by the late Ganapati Sastri in 1917. Now, Pandit Sri. Ramachandra Sarma who is on the staff of the Adyar Library, has written a Tamil explanation of the text and has published the text with this Tamil commentary. Sri Ramachandra Sarma has to his credit a few Sanskrit works published with his own Tamil explanations, besides the work he has done in the Adyar Library by collaborating in various publications of the Library. He is a good scholar in Sanskrit and he has also good command of Tamil. His explanation is accurate and clear, ‘His plan has much to commend. He takes the words of the Text in prose order and then gives the