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INTRODUCTION
Pandit Rahula Samkṛtyāyana, the great scholar Indologist, brought from Tibetan monasteries photographic copies of several Sanskrit works deposited there. Among, them he brought photographic copies of Vinaya-Sutra and an auto-commentary on the same called Vinaya-Sutra-vṛttyabhidhana-Sva-vyakhyana* by Guṇaprabha. He has also provisionally printed an edition of the Vinaya-Sutra, though it is not formally published. The Director of the press where it was printed, approached us for necessary corrections, knowing its tentative character. On examination it was discovered that this edition of the Vinaya-Sutra was very unsatisfactory. We then decided in 1963 to undertake this work containing fragments of the auto-commentary, which regularly quotes all the Sutras and comments on them. The photos of this auto-commentry are deposited in the K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna.
As a preliminary of this work, we are giving here only the first chapter of Vinaya-Sutra-Pravrajya-vastu, along with its commentary by the same author Gunaprabha in the Original, or rendered from the Tibetan translation.
Tibetan Translations
This work Vinaya-Sutra was held in great respect by the Buddhists of the Mula-Sarvästivāda School. This work along with its commentaries has been translated into Tibetan.1 The Tibetan works directly concerned with our text in the Tibetan Translations of Bstan Hgyur are as follows :
See P. V. Bapat's paper on Discovery of a Sanskrit Text, Vinaya-sutra in vol. III, part i, pp. 343-44 in the Proceedings of the twenty-sixth International Congress of Orientalists, Poona, 1969.
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A photographic copy of the Tibetan Tripitaka published by Suzuki Research Foundation, Tokyo, Japan, 1957. This is a photographic reproduction of the Peking edition from the Otani University Library, Kyoto,
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