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FOREWORD
It is with great pleasure that we place before the public for the first time a Sanskrit work written by a well-known Jaina author Sri Rajasekhara Sūri of great importance as a material for the history of Gujarat. This work was entrusted to Prof. H. R. Kapadia, M. A., in 1931 A. D., by the Forbes Gujarātī Sabha, Bombay, for editing, annotating etc. We are grateful to him for the splendid edition he has prepared by utilizing 3 Mss. and a printed copy. Herein the learned reader will find various readings, Sanskrit renderings of verses in Prakrit and old Gujarati, notes pertaining to the technicalities of Jainism and several appendices. Out of them the alphabetical index of names of rulers; cities etc., will attract the attention of students interested in research work. This edition stands unique in all these aspects which are wanting in the other edition which may be looked upon as editio princeps. This was published in A. D. 1921 by S'ri Hemacandracarya Granthavali, as the 20th number of that Series, which has been here referred to as ga.
We need not dilate upon the life of the author as well as the historical basis of the 24 prabandhas as the learned editor hopes to deal with it in the subsequent volume of this work viz. the critical edition of the Gujarati translation which is entrusted to him by our Sabha and which is in press at present.
We shall be failing in our duty if we did not express our indebtedness to Divan Bahadur K. M. Javeri, M. A., LL. B., who procured from the Bombay Royal Asiatic Society for the Sabha two Mss., of
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