कवीन्द्रगङ्गानन्दग्रन्थावली- Kavindra Gangananda Granthavali in Sanskrit Only (Critical Edition, An old and Rare and Pin Holed Book)

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In the course of our researches on "The contribution on Mithila to Sanskrit Kavya-sahitya" we came across a number of valuable manuscripts which had not been published. One such was the Srigaravanamala of Kavindra Gangananda of Mithila. Other published works of Gangananda were also not easily available. We, therefore, decided to publish a volume containing all his available works on the line of Kavirajabhanudattagranthavali.
We approached the Director, Mithila Institute of Postgraduate Studies and Research in Sanskrit Learning, Darbhanga and he was kind enough to include the present volume in his programme of institute- publications. We express our gratitude to him.
We are also thankful to the proprietors of Lakshmi Press, Muzaffarpur for their keen interest in getting the volume printed.
We would further like to put on record our deepest sense of gratitude to the editors of the works forming the corpus of the present volume.
We crave the indulgence of the sympathetic reader to ignore the defects in the volume, which are many, and pick up the solid grains from the chaff.

Mithila is the region surrounded by rivers on three sides and by a mountain on the fourth. The River Kauski flows on her cast and the River Gandaki on her west. The River Ganga forms her southern boundary, whereas the Himalaya her northern. She has a unique distinction of contributing her mite to the advancement of Sanskrti learning right from the Vedic period. The contribution of Mithila to Sanskrit learning is not limited to any one branch of it, rather most of its branches flourished in this fertile land of erudition and imagination. In the field of Kavya-Sahitya as well poets, prose-writers, dramatists and rhetoricians of note hailing from Mithila have enriched the Sanskrit literature by their valuable contributions. An outstanding scholar in this field is Kavindra Gangananda, whose complete available works have been compiled here.
As is evident from the statements in his works, it is an established fact that Kavindra Gangananda hailed from Mithila. In the Karnabhūşaņa he calls himself a 'tairabhukta' (a resident of Tirhut) and in the Sigaravanamala a 'mithiladesavasin (an inhabitant of Mithiladesa).
Tradition says that Gangananda lived in village Sarisava, the village of his maternal grand-father. This stand corroborated by the fact that he has extolled this village to the skies in his Bhingaduta and called it a 'gramvatana'. This village has been a seat of Sanskrit learning from the days of yore. It has produced a galaxy of Sanskrit scholars, who have secured an undying fame for their native village. Prominent among them are: Ayaci Bhavanatha, M.M. Sankara, Mahadeva, Dhakkakavi Ganpati, Kaviraja Bhanudatta, Parasurama, Kavindra Gangananda, Harihara, Venīdatta, Sacala, Mohana, M.M. Dr. Ganganatha, Dr. Amaranatha, Markandeya, M.M. Balakrsna, and Kavisekhara Badarinatha and Umanatha.