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________________ NANDISUTTAM AND ANUOGADDARAM 165 Cambay palm-leaf MS and gives readings which are in conformity with the Vrtti of Maladhari Hemacandra and represents the unabridged text (bshadvacana). From among the various useful appendices the two giving the alphabetical index of all the words occurring in the texts of the Nandisutra and the Anuyogadvarasutra as well in footnotes to them are of great importance. They give Sanskrit equivalents of each and every Prakrit word and indicate the desya words, indeclinables and adverbs by appropriate signs. It is for the first time that such all-comprehensive indexes of these agama texts have been prepared. These and similar indexes of the remaining agama texts will facilitate the task of preparing a complete and authentic dictionary of the agama texts. The editors when speaking about the present critical edition rightly lay emphasis on the task of making available correct and genuine readings, point out the deficiencies in the printed editions and expose, more in pain than in anger, the glaring defects in the so-called new commentaries of Ghasilalji and insist on the editor's prior equipment such as knowledge of tradition and history of agamas. They fully discuss (Intro p. 107) some important readings such as tesiyam, terasiyam (for vesiyas or vesitam, Sk vaisikam) in the Nandisutra (p. 29, 1.8) and Kavoyanam or Kanotanam (for Kayanam-Kaya or Kata is a desya word, meaning "Kavati-vahaka, or vivadhavahaka in Sk.) in the Anuyogadvarasutra (p. 73, 1.10) and they also throw fresh light on what is pasattha jhavana and what is apasattha Jhavana rightly criticising the corrupt readings in the printed editions of the Anuyogadvarasutra, and conclude how the preparation of a truly critical edition demands of its editor such qualities as tremendous patience, perseverance, keenness for exactitude, vigilance and sincerity in scrutinising different MSS, in collating variants and in understanding the textual explanations given by commentators. The critical edition is prefaced with a learned and masterly introduction treating of various topics such as the Jain agamas and the Vedas, sources of the angas, the Geographical Region of their composition, Language, Number, Classification, and Age of the agamas, Author of Nandisutra-Devavacaka, his Date, Anuyoga (Exposition), the Method of Exposition as demonstrated in the Anuyogadvara, the Jain, the Buddhistic and the Vedic Methods of Exposition, Life and Date of the author and the Date of the Anuyogadvara and, last but not the least, they treat of the rich socio Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org
| SR No. | 001868 |
| Book Title | Studies in Jain Literature |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | V M Kulkarni |
| Publisher | Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre |
| Publication Year | 2001 |
| Total Pages | 114 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English, Literature, & Story |
| File Size | 14 MB |