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Jadrahamsagani sooms to have versified in Prakrit Ac. Hemacandra's BhuvanabhaBukovalicarita. The works on the same theme written after Indrahamsagani are also found. Lakşmilabhaganl of Kharataragaccha composed in V. S. 1603 Bhuvanabhanukevall. carita in Parkrit prose. This seems to be the Prakrit Chayā of Āc. Hemacandra's Sanskrit work in point. The work is unpublished. In V. S. 1769 Udayaratnasűri of Tapagaccha composed Bhuyapabhanukevali-rasa in old Gujarati. Ac. Hemacandra's concerned work constitutes the basis of this rasa. This rasa is already published. In V.S. 1801 Tattvabamsagani wrote a Balavabodha (commentary in old Gujarati) on Āc. Hemacandra's Sanskrit Bhuvanabhanukevalicarita. Harikalasa too has written a Balavabodha on the same work.
We are grateful to Late Muni Shri Ramanlkvijayaji for editing this interesting Prakrit work. Our thanks are due to Pt. Babubhai Savchand Shah for correcting the proofs. We express our thanks to Dr. R. M, Shah who has kindly written Gujarati Introduction to the Prakrit text.
We are very much thankful to the Trustees of the Kikabhat's Pole Jaina Upashraya who at an lastance of Muni Shri Ramanlkvijayaji, gave us papers at gratis to print the present work and donated Rs. 355/- for the puplication of the same.
We hope the present work will be useful to the students of Prakit language and literature.
L. D. Institute of Indology Ahmedabad-380009. 15th April 1976
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