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PREFACE
Āgam Prabhākar Muni Shri Punyavijayji was a profound scholar of the Jaina āgamas and agamic literature. He had lent significant contribution to the manuscriptology and to the methodology of editing the ancient works. He, moreover, had edited several rare works in an ideal way. Sheth Shri Kasturbhai Lalbhai founded L. D. Institute of Indology in the fifties; thanks to his inspiration.
The L. D. Institute, since its inception, is an important centre for the studies concerning Indological subjects. As one of its academic activities, the Institute organizes lecture-series, one being in the memory of Muni Shri Punyavijayji. For this series, learned scholars are invited to deliver lectures on the subjects of their specialization. In this series, Dr. Tapasvi Nandi, professor Emeritus (U.G.C.) and a scholar of Sanskrit Language and literature was invited to deliver lectures in February 2002. We are indeed deeply grateful to him for accepting our invitation and discussing the topic of 'Abhidhā' from the rhetorical angle. Therein, he has also discussed different viewpoints of the ancient ālamkārikas, including Ācārya Hemacandra on this subject. We hope that these lectures, now appearing in print, will prove useful to the students of alamkāraśāstra.
L. D. Institute of Indology Ahmedabad-380009 February 2002.
Jitendra B. Shah
Director
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