Sruta Sarita

SR No.: 001940
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 310
Language: English, Prakrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Articles
File Size: 18 MB

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scholars. The Jaina Bhandāra of Limbadi was also restored by this trio. Later, the Jaina Bhandāras of Cambay and Jesalmer were visited and restored by Muni Shri Punyavijayji. His healing touch was extended also to manuscript collections in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Malva and Maharashtra. The extensive collection of manuscripts by the two was presented to L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad, by Shri Muni Punyavijayaji and from this nucleus the Institute has developed into a vast library containing more then 35,000 mss. and 20,000 printed books.
Besides getting edited several important works through competent scholars, he has himself edited many important texts, among which may be mentioned : Vasudevahindi, Brhatkalpa-Bhāsya, Hemacandra's Trisasti, Angavijjā, Kalpasūtra, ākhyānakamaņikośa etc. For the last forty years he was engaged in preparing the critical edition of the Jaina canonical texts which the Mahāvīra Vidyālaya of Bombay undertook to publish. Three texts viz., Nandi, Anuyoga and Prajnapanā have hitherto been issued and the others await publication. He was able to publish the Catalogues of mss. of Limdi, Cambay and his own collection. The Catalogue of the Jesalmer Bhandāra is already printed and that of Patan is also printed (partly), but they are not published.
The Jaina. Sangha requested Muniji many a time to accept the award of Acarya-ship, but he was satisfied with his own humble Muni-ship. On continuous requests, he accepted the title of Agamaprabhākara. He was elected as the President of the Prakrits and Jainism section of the All-India Oriental Conference held at Srinagar in 1961 and was awarded the Honorary Membership of the American Oriental Society in 1970.
In honour of his completing sixty years of his ascetic life, a dedication volume entitled Uñānāñjali' was published in 1969. This volume is a pointer to the respect and admiration that he commanded both among Indian and foreign scholars.
May his soul rest in peace.
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