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EDITOR'S NOTE
Third Appendix : This Appendix contains a descriptive alphabetical index of the proper names of the works, the authors, the kings, the mountains, the cities, etc.
Fourth Appendix : At those concerned places we have noted down in the foot-notes the sūtra-readings which the commentators have recognised as representing different recension. For the convenience of the reader all those readings are given here in this Appendix.
Appendices to the Laghunandi-Anujñānandi
The three Appendices to the Laghunandi are of the same type as are the first three Appendices to the Nandisūtra respectively.
Appendices to the Yoganandi The two Appendices to the Yoganandi are of the same type as are the second and the third Appendices of the Nandisūtra respectively.
Appendices to the Anuyogadvārasūtra The four Appendices to the Anuyogadvārasūtra are of the same type as are the four Appendices of the Nandisūtra respectively.
OUR CRITICAL METHOD OF EDITING
THE JAINA ĀGAMAS
We have mainly accepted the following six principles in critically editing the texts of the Jaina Agama :
(i) Utilization of the old handwritten mss. (ii) Utilization of the Cūrni, Țikā, Avacūri, Tippanaka, etc. (iii) Utilization of the quotations from the Agama. (iv) Comparison with the sutra-readings found in the other
Agama texts. (v) Discrimination of the unwanted wrong amendations made
by the scholars. (vi) Discrimination of the mistakes committed by the copyist.
(i) Utilization of the old handwritten mss. In the preparation of the critical edition of the Āgamas we have utilized the old palm-leaf mss. of the concerned Āgama as also the paper mss. belonging to the fifteenth-sixteenth cent. V. S. As the
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