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INTRODUCTION
Late Rev. Muni Shri Punyavijayaji collected manuscripts of ne most of the Prakirnakas included in the present volume entitled 'Painnayasuttiin', got prepared the copies, noted variants and finalised the recension. (The recension of the Joisakaramdgapainnaya (pp. 361-408) prepared by him with great pains, utilising his long experience of editing the scriptures is a good example of the scholarly editing work.) He noted only variants of some Prakīrnakasūtras but did not finalised their recension. Again, at the time when examination of the text of Sārāvalipainnaya, Isibhāsiyāiin and Titthogālīpain naya was yet to be undertaken, he passed away. Hence following the decision of the Hon. Secretaries of Shri Mahavira Jaina Vidyalaya, Shri Kantibhai Kora, the devoted Director of the same Institution, suggested me to undertake the work of completing the editing of all the Prakirnakas. I accepted the suggestion, and completed the work according to my capacity through the grace of Rev. Muni Shri Punyavijayaji.
A note is written according to the instruction of Muni Shri Punyavijayaji in the Prakāśakiya Nivedana to the ‘Nandisuttam and Aņuogaddarāim' (Jaina-Agama-Series No. 1. published by Shri Mahavira Jaina Vidyalaya, 1968 A.D.) on the ten Prakīrņakasūtras which find place among 45 Āgamas. Therein he has given the order of the ten Prakīrnakasūtras. But when he was finalising the editing of the text of the Prakırnakasūtras, he himself in his own handwriting wrote down the order of the Prakīrņakasūtras; this order we have followed here in the present volume. The order mentioned in the Prakāśakıya Nivedana to the 'Nandisuttar and Anuogaddārāim' is somewhat different from the one we find in the work entitled Catuḥsaranādimaranasamădhyantam Prakirnakadaśakam' published by Āgamodaya Samiti in 1927 A.D.; moreover, in our order occur the Camdavejjhaya and the Viratthaya in place of the Gacchacarapainnayam and the Maranasamāhi in the Agamodaya Samiti edition. The reason of this change in the order must have been there in Muni Punyavijayaji's mind but we have not come across any note by him. So it is very difficult for us to know it. In short, the order of the Prakırnakasūtras, adopted in this volume, is strictly based on his handwritten final note. Hence the order in which the ten Prakırnakas are enumerated in the Prakāśakiya Nivedana is broken here in this volume. To arrive at the 45 number of the Agamas-neither more nor less-in that Prakāśakıya Nivedana ten Prakīrnakas are enumerated in the following order : 1 Causarana (by Virabhadrācārya), 2 Āurapaccakkhăna (by Vira
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