Kanva Samhita: with the Padapatha and the commentaries of Sayanacarya and Anandabodha (Vol-1, Chapters 1-10)

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The edition of the Vajasaney! Kanva Samhita of the Sukla Yajurveda was planned by me as early as 1966. While working on my major Samavedic project, side by side I started to collect the manuscript material for my new project from the Libraries and private possessions. Before I left Tirupati in August 1970, I had been able to collect considerable material needed for this project. The rest of the essential manuscript material I collected while working at Hoshiarpur, Kathmandu and finally at Mysore.
In April 1978 having nearly finished my work one by one on my other projects, I sat down to work on the Kanva Samhita seriously and dedicated my entire time on this major project. After the completion of the collation work I started to write the press copy in November 1979, to be exact, on 7-11-1979, wednesday at 10.08 a. m. and completed the tenth chapter on 27-8-1980, wednesday at 13.35 (ie., 1.35 p. m.) I am very happy now to see that the first volume of this major Samhita of the Sukla Yajurveda comprising the full Dasaka is now being issued by the Vaidika Samsodhana Mandala, Pune, Other volumes will follow in due course one by one as soon as they are printed. I can now express my feeling of satisfaction in the following a few words of our great poet Kalidasa:

We have great pleasure in introducing to the world of oriental scholars, the first volume of Kanva-Samhita (chapters 1-10) with Padapatha and commentaries of Sayanacarya and Anandabodha, first time critically edited by Dr. B. R. Sharma.
We have contemplated to bring out the edition of Kanva Samhita, with Padapatha and three commentaries in four volumes. Fifth volume will consist of various indices. The commentaries of Sayapacarya and Anandabodha have been available on the first twenty chapters, while chapters 21-40 have been commented upon, by Ananda- bodha and Anantacarya.
The entire work has been critically edited by Dr. B. R. Sharma, on the basis of numerous manuscript material, and we are very much grateful to him for preparing this edition laboriously, and also for allowing us to publish the same.
The Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi, have accorded sanction to the grant towards the editing and publishing of this volume. We record our deep sense of gratitude to the central Ministry.
Similarly Shriman M. S. Parkhe, relieved us from the anxiety caused by the paucity of paper and extended timely help in furthering the printing of this volume, We are very much thankful to him.
Our colleagues Dr. Mrs. S. R. Abhyankar, Dr. N. D. Sharma and shri, J. D. Joshi, who rendered great help in revising the press copy and correcting the proofs, deserve our heartfelt thanks.
We hope this volume will receive high approbation from the world of oriental scholars.