Acknowledgements
The author expresses his gratitude to the trustees of the Mahalaxmi Temple Trust and the Y.B. Chavan Pratishthan of Mumbai for their generous support in printing this manuscript. The author acknowledges with thanks the permission given by Dinkar Gangal of Granthali, for allowing him to include portions of one of his earlier works published by them. This book would not have been possible without the following source material. The titles of books which are not in English are translated into English for convenience and are marked by an asterix. 1. Dnyaneshwari. Ed. S.W. Dandekar, published 1953 by Swanand in Pune (Poona).* 2. Dnyandevi. Ed. A. Mangrulkar and V.M. Kelkar. Compilors Mrs. S. Vaidya, V.R. Karandikar, K.S. Arjunwadkar and R. Patwardhan. Dept. of Marathi, Mumbai University, 1994, Mumbai.* 3. Encyclopaedia in Marathi. Ed. L. Joshi. Published by Literary and Cultural Centre and the State of Maharashtra, 1976. Mumbai.* 4. Encyclopaedia of Indian Culture. Ed. M. Joshi. Associate Ed. Mrs. P. Hodarkar, G.V. Sahastrabuddhe. Published by S.M. Hodarkar for the Centre for Encyclopaedia of Indian Culture, Pune (Poona).* 5. The Students’ Sanskrit English dictionary by V.S. Apte. Publishers Motilal Banarasidas 1971, Delhi, Varanasi, Patna, Bangalore, Madras. Originally published in 1890 in Poona (Pune), name of publisher not mentioned.* 6. All the words in Dnyaneshwari. Ed. R.N. Velingkar. Published by the Centre for research in Marathi, a publication of Kalnirnay, Mumbai. First published in 1959.* 7. A Dictionary of old Marathi. Ed. S.G. Tulpule and Anne Feldhaus. Assisted by M.P. Pethe and lexicographer Ms. Jayashree Gune. Popular Prakashan, 1999. (Old Marathi into English.) 8. Indian Philosophy by Radhakrishnan, New York. The Macmillan Company, London, George Allen Unwin. First published, 1923. 9. The Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus. Ed. Ms. Sara Tulloch. Oxford, Melbourne, Oxford University Press (in conjunction with Reader’s Digest, 1994). Other sources are cited within the text. Editorial Assistance: Akshar Consultants: aksharconsultants@gmail.com Author’s Photograph: Veena Gokhale: studio_saaya@yahoo.co.in v