Nandisutt and Anuogaddaraim

SR No.: 001062
Original Sutra Author: Devvachak, Aryarakshit
Author: Punyavijay, Dalsukh Malvania, Amrutlal Bhojak
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 764
Language: Prakrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Agam, Canon, Ethics, agam_nandisutra, & agam_anuyogdwar
File Size: 14 MB

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The Āgamas edited by Āc. Śrī Sāgarānandasūrīśvaraji are superior to those edited by Ray Dhanpatsimhaji from the point of view of correct readings as well as correct printing; and they have proved very useful to the scholars. The credit certainly goes to Āc. Sāgarānandasūriśvaraji for whatever progress we have achieved in the study of Jaina Religion and Philosophy ever since the publication of his edition. Despite all this the need for a critical edition of the Agamas still remains to be fulfilled. In 1943 A. D. there was established Shri Jināgama Prakāśini Samsad with the aim of publishing the Agamas but it has not yet published a single text.
Muni Sri Punyavijayaji, one of us, has been making, throughout the last forty years and more, such efforts as would make possible the publication of a critical edition of all the Āgamas. Not only that, but he has made successful attempts to correct the text-reading of the Agamas on the basis of the quotations from them found in other works. Taking into consideration these attempts in the main, Late Dr. Rajendraprasad, the first president of independent India, founded the Prakrit Text Society in 1952 A.D. The main objective of the Society is to bring out a critical edition of each and every agama text along with the commentaries thereon. And it has already published the Angavijjā; the Nandisūtra along with the Cūrni by Jinadāsaganimahattara; and the Nandisātra along with the Vrtti by Sri Haribhadrasūri, the Durgapada commentary by Śri Sricandracārya and the Vişamapadaparyāya by an anonymous writer.
Muni Śri Ghāsilälji of the Sthānakavāsi Sangha has almost completed the work of composing new Sanskrit commentaries on all the 32 Āgamas recognized by the followers of this sect; and that of publishing these Āgamas along with Hindi and Gujarati translations. Muni Śrī Phulacandraji (Puppha Bhikkhu) of the same sect has already published all the 32 original Agamas in the two parts under one common name Suttāgame through the Sūtrāgama Prakāśaka Samiti, Gudagamva, Chāvani. Both these editions of the Agama texts are based on that of the Agamodaya Samiti; even then the readings have been changed here and there. Āc. Tulasigani of the Śvetāmbara Terāpantha Sect has started, in collaboration with a group of his disciples, the work of publishing the Āgamas and has already published a critical edition of the Daśavaikälikasūtra along with a Hindi translation and annotations.