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Introduction.
The present edition of the first two chapters of Samarãicca-kahã aims at giving the correct text of the said chapters with the necessary adjuncts which may serve as helps towards the proper understanding of the text even to an ordinary student of the Mahrastri Prakrta. Prof. Jacobi has edited Samarãicca-kahã of Haribhadra Sūri, complete in Nine Chapters or Bhavas (=Births) in the Bibliothica Indica Series, Calcutta. It is a very carefully edited, critical and excellent edition but it is not accompanied with elucidatory helps like notes or a detailed glossary, though of course Fasc. 9 of the said work published in 1926 gives the complete summary of the work in English, together with the introduction dealing in full, so far as the up-to-date modern research can go, with the problems of the life and work of Haribhadra. I have based my text primarily on Prof. Jacobi's text with corrections and emendations which according to the Ms. from Pātana supplied by Mahārāja S’ri Punyavijayaji are found to be significant and better. In paragraphing etc., I have followed Prof. Jacobi with a view that this work can as well serve
