The VIIth World Sanskrit Conference was held in August 1987, at the Kern Institute in Leiden. Panels constituted one of its special features. More than half of these panels will be published in the present series. The titles of the first ten volumes are: "The Sanskrit Tradition and Tantrism," "Earliest Buddhism and Madhyamaka," "The History of Sacred Places in India as Reflected in Traditional Literature," "Sense and Syntax in Vedic," "P ini and the Veda," "Middle Indo-Aryan and Jaina Studies," "Sanskrit Outside India," "Medical Literature from India, Sri Lanka and Tibet," "Indian Art and Archaeology," "Rules and Remedies in Classical Indian Law." Each volume contains contributions by several specialists, and has one or more editors of international reputation in the field concerned.