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Part.From the preface: "The last volume 12 of the Tibetan-Sanskrit Dictionary appeared in 1961. The twelve volumes ran into 2560 pages and have since been reprinted in Japan in compact editions that guide Buddhologists through the vast spaces of Tibetan classical texts, exegetical works and an immense literature that has been written on sublime subjects. As the twelve volumes were in print, I had card-indexed an alphabetised a number of texts that were available both in Sanskrit and Tibetan. The cards were finally written down for the press by the beginning of the year 1964. In 1963 my father Prof. Raghu Vira passed away in a car crash, leaving me disarrayed in darkness. The great mind was gone and I sought construction from within. Things came and went, and plucked the thyme of my dreams. 328 pp.