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I have taken this research study under the supervision of Dr. T. Devarajan, Professor and Head, Department of Sanskrit and Dean iaculty of oriental studies, University of Kerala. I wish to record my sincere thanks for his guidance and help. I owe a great debt to Professor R. Vasudevan Potti, eminent Sanskrit scholar, for his valuable suggestions and practical guidance in the critical edition part of this work. I could collate the manuscripts of Sucindrasthalamahatmya present in the Oriental Manuscripts Library, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram ; Sarasvaty Mahal Library, Tanjavur ; Adyar Library and Research Centre, Chennai ; Government Oriental Manuscript Library Chennai; Oriental Institute Vadodara, Gujarat. I got the sincere Co-operation from the authorities and staff every where. I extend my sincere thanks to them. Sthanikar of Help rendered by Dr. N.P. Sharma, present Vattappalli Suchindram Temple, has been of in assessable worth. He had generously made me available the manuscripts of sucindrasthalamahatmya, sucindrasthalapurana (Malayalam), and sucindrasthalamahatmya of Vattappalli Parameswara Sharma. During my frequent visits to sucindram I stayed as a guest in his house. I extend my sincere thanks to him and his family for their consideration and help. I am very greatful to Dr. N.P Unni, Ex-Vice Chancellor, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady for his kind help to me complete the present thesis. He had collected a Zerox copy of the manuscript of the work from Kern Institute, Leiden, Netherlands for me. I also extend my sincere thanks to Dr. Damodaran Unni, Sri Sankaracharya University Centre, Koyilandi, Dr. Meena Patak, Oriental Institute, Vadodara, V.S.Vijaya Raghavan, Sanskrit Mahavidhyalaya, Vadodara, Dr. A.R. Rajan, Professor and Head, Department of Mathematics, University of Kerala, Dr. Raghunathan, Assistant Librarian, University of Kerala for their kind co-operation and help. I express my sincere thanks to my friends for there love, affection and persuasion to complete this work ; Dr.V. Sivanandan Achari, Dr. Somy Sebastian, Dr. George Thomas, Dr. V.A.Gangadharan, B. Pradeep, Ajay Joseph, Syamsundar, Vidhu Narayanan, Sargapradeep, Boban, Reji, G. Narayanan, S. Murali, Dr. Sahayadas, Dr. M.V. Suresh, T. Santhoshkumar, Saji Varghese, Lathakumari P.C, Anitha K.R., Rekha R., Bera.R. Uday, P.Ajayalekshmi, Susma.P.K., D. Sanjeev Kumar, Sreejith Y. Unnithan, Santhosh, T.K. Santhosh kumar, Dr.P Ramesh Kumar, K.Jayamurali, V.Aravindashan, K.Santhosh, G.Prasannan i Susilkumar. G. Prasannan, G. Sanjeev, Ramamoorthy, Palanichami, Kalai Selvan, Vijaya Kumar, Paul Sekhar. Thanks for Dr. K.Nachimuthu, Professor and Head, Department of Tamil and Dr. T. Vishnu kumaran, Dr. S. Velayuthan,S.P. Sreenivasan and Kumar who helped me in collecting various books in Tamil and translating for this work. I express my sincere thanks to them. I also extend my sincere thank to Mr. H.S. Potti, Mr. Shaji & Mr.Ravi of ORI and MSS, Trivandrum for their help.

I place on record my gratitude to my colleagues, C.R. Santhosh, P.K. Rajendran Nair, B.R. Cishu kumar and G. Jagannadh K.Sreenivasan for their timely help to complete this thesis. My brother Anand Sri Raj and my uncle Mr. K.R. Sasidharan Nair, have encourage me and extended their financial assistance for the completion of this work. I extend my sincere thanks to them also. My humble prostrations to the living memories of ny mother Gomathy Amma and my uncle Mr. K.K. Pillai, whose long cherished wish was the successful completion of this thesis. In this moment I have to express my sincere gratitude to one person. It is no one other than my father. During the period of this work he helped me with great patience even though I have gifted him only pains. Actually my indebtedness to him is beyond words. Smt. Sushama Reghunathan and other staff of Madhurima computers, Ampalathinkara executed computer work of this thesis. I convey my thanks for their efforts and pains taken in the careful execution of this thesis. University of Kerala has sanctioned me fellowship which enabled me to complete this work. Indian Council of Historical Research granted me a travel grand of visiting various manuscript Libraries in India. Sri. Sankaracharya Mutt, Sringeri extended their financial assistance for this work. I record my sincere thanks to them. The teaching and non teaching staff, Dept. of Sanskrit, University of Kerala helped me a lot in completing this thesis. My sincere thanks to, Dr.P Syamaladevi, Dr.K. Maheswaran Nair, Dr. V. Sisupala Panikar,Smt. P.K. Thankamany, the faculty. I also extend my sincere thanks to Mrs. Sathy devi and Smt. Mariamma Joseph, for their help. And last, not least my humble salutations to Sthanunatha, the Lord Siva of Sucindram Temple, Sucindrasthalamahatmya is a glorification of Lord Sthanunatha. ANAND DILIP RAJ