Agam 02 Ang 02 Sutrakrutang Sutra

SR No.: 001023
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jambuvijay, Dharmachandvijay
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay
Publication Year: 1978
Total Pages: 475
Language: Prakrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Agam, Canon, Metaphysics, & agam_sutrakritang
File Size: 8 MB

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FOREWORD
Bhandara, Gaekwad's Oriental Series, Baroda, No. 76 it bears Serial No. 397 (1-2). It has 54 folios. Folios 1-48 contain the Sutrakṛtāngasūtra and folios 48-54 contain the Sutrakṛtānganiryukti. The ms. was written at Patan in V.S. 1468.
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These three are the palm-leaf manuscripts. Now we describe four paper manuscripts.
g This manuscript belongs to the Muniraja Śri Punyavijayaji collection preserved in the Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Bharatiya Sanskriti Vidya Mandira, Ahmedabad. It is numbered 8402 in the Catalogue. It has 48 folios. It was written at Navanagara (Jamnagar) in V.S. 1718.
ga This manuscript belongs to the same Collection. It is numbered 8363. It has 39 folios. On the basis of the script it can safely be assigned to the sixteenth century of the Vikrama Era.
This manuscript is preserved in the Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Bharatiya Sanskriti Vidyamandira, Ahmedabad. It bears No. 14528. It contains 39 folios. It can be assigned to the sixteenth century of the Vikrama Era.47
This manuscript belongs to the Samvegi Upäśraya, Hajapatel Pole, Ahmedabad. It is numbered 3678 in the list. It contains 350 folios. The Sutrakṛtāngasūtra is written in the middle part of folios whereas the commentary by Silācārya is written in the upper and lower parts. The ms. seems to have been written in the sixteenth or the seventeenth century of the Vikrama Era. Thus in the preparation of the critical edition of the Sutrakṛtangasutra we have utilised seven manuscripts.48
• This is the printed edition of the Sutrakṛtänga with the Vṛtti by Sīlācārya, published by the Agamodaya Samiti in V.S. 1976 (= 1919 A.D.). We have utilised this edition mainly in noting down variants in the foot-notes of the second śrutaskandha. We do not know as to which manuscripts have formed the basis of this edition. Regarding this nothing is said in the go edition itself. This edition is fraught with corrupt readings and wrongly split up words at some places.
I have personally not seen the
manuscripts. I have simply utilised the readings which Muniraja Sri Punyavijayaji Mahāraja collected from these manuscripts. These readings are collected
47. For the extensive colophon occurring at the end of this manuscript one may refer to the Prastāvanā to the present edition of the Sutrakṛtānga (p. 40, fn. 1).
48. For the important information given at the end of all these seven manuscripts one may refer to notes on p. 258 of this edition.