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GENERAL EDITOR'S NOTE
We feel pleasure in offering to the world of scholars the second part of the Śrāvakabhūmi edited by Dr. Karunesh Shukla, Professor and Head, Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages, University of Gorakhpur. The first part of the Sravakabhūmi, edited by Dr Shukla was published by K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute as the fourteenth volume of the Tibetan Sanskrit Works Series in 1973 but some of its portions could not be included in it due to some unavoidable reasons. Now the remaining matter of the work sees the light of the day in a separate volume of the Tibetan Sanskrit Works Series as no 28.
We have a programme to publish the entire Yogācārabhumi-Sastra of Acarya Asanga. Its fifteenth bhumi named Bodhisattva-bhūmi has already been published as no. VII of the Tibetan Sanskrit Series of the Institute. The text of the remaining bhumis are complete and it is hoped that they will also be published in the near future by our Institute.
In the present volume besides the remaining matter of introduction the editor has supplied the Sanskrit restoration of the missing portions of Sravakabhumi from its Tibetan translation, which is really worth appreciable. Besides, he has added four more appendices to this volume along with quotations, index of verses and index of important Sanskrit words of Sravakabhūmi.
I imagine that those who have a genuine interest in Buddhist studies will welcome this publication.
Vasanta-pancami 20.1.1991
Professor (Dr.) J. C. Jha
