Agam 39 Chhed 06 Mahanishith Sutra

SR No.: 001149
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Punyavijay, Rupendrakumar Pagariya, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Granth Parishad
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 284
Language: Prakrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Agam, Canon, Ethics, & agam_mahanishith
File Size: 19 MB

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MAHÄNISIHA STUDIES AND EDITION IN GERMANY
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11.13 Gacchácara, -prakimaka
This text has many verses in common with the MNA as was noticed by A. Weber. We use the edition prepared by Muni Punyavijayaji and A.M.Bhojak, Paiņṇayasuttaim (Jaina-Agama-Granthamälä, 17,1.1.1984). 136,20,530 pp.
11.14 Muni Punyavijaya, Cat.ŚBh.Cby.
Catalogue of Palm-leaf Mss. in the Santinatha Jain[a] Bhandara, Cambay by Muni Punyavijaya. Part 1,2. Baroda, Orient.Inst.1961, 1966 (GOS.135, 149). 6,1-200; xii,201-497 pp.
Muniji describes 290 Mss. containing 804 Texts. On pp.442-497 there are as many as 17 useful indices. For the earliest list by Peterson see 1.15.1, for an earlier Cat. in Gujarati by acarya Vijayakumudasūri see ¶ 2.2.4. —
Reviewed (1) by W.Schubring in ZDMG.118.1968,pp.446-7; (2) by L. Alsdorf in OLZ.59.1964, No.9/10,494-5; (3) by Richard] Williams] in BSOAS.26.1963, pp.230-31.
1.15 Peterson, Report/Rep.
1.15.1 [First] Detailed Report of Operations in Search of Sanskrit Mss. in the Bombay Circle, August 1882 March 1883 by Professor Peter Peterson.
(Extra Number of the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Soc., Bombay 1883.) See especially pp.56-69 (Cambay) and Appendix I: Cat. Palm-leaf Mss. in Säntinäths Bhandar, Cambay on pp.(1)-(103), this being the earliest list of this rather old collection. Compare ¶1.14.
1.15.2 A Fourth Report... April 1886 March 1892 by Professor Peter Peterson. (Extra Number of the JBBRAS. Bombay. 1894).
On pp.i-clxii: Index of ["aina] Authors; [A] pp.1-17: Report; [B] pp.1-177: Extracts from the Mss. purchased for Govt.; [C] pp.1-58: List of Mss. acquired for Govt. (pp.43-58, - No.1167-1504: Jaina Lit.). For Peterson's other Reports see K. L. Janert, ABCIM,
Part 1, pp.128-9: #274.
1.16 Bhandarkar, Report/Rep. 1883-84
Report on the Search for Skt. Mss. in the Bombay Presidency during the year 1883-84, by Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar. Ebay, 1887.
This very informative work contains: (1) Examination of Libraries at Patan (pp.1-15), (2) ... at Ahmedabad (pp. 16-22); (3)... of Mss. purchased for Govt.(pp.23ff.) inter alia Class xvii Jaina Lit.; Appx.I.A: List of Mss. in the Upaŝraya Pophaliano pado, Patan (pp.161
This edition contains 2) texts. Gacchāyāru (137 vss.) is the 17th, pp. 337-349. -- For other editions see e.g. Studien zum Jainismus und Buddhismus Gedenkschrift für Ludwig Alsdorf (= SUB-LA Alsdorf Mem. Vol.), ed. by Klaus Bruhn, Albrecht Wezler (ANISH.23.1981), p.311.