Sandesha Rasaka

SR No.: 002918
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Abdul Rahman, Jinvijay, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1945
Total Pages: 282
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 17 MB

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PREFACE
a transcript of the Harivansapurāna contained therein, which I had got previously prepared. Afterwards I informed him of this Samdeśarāsaka also. In the meanwhile, when I decided to go to Germany, he wrote to me: "When yow come, please bring with you the Ms. of the Sandesarūsaka or a transcript thereof. I am very eager to see that work' etc. Accordingly I took with me the transcript that I had prepared with my own hand and when in the summer of 1924 I saw that revered and aged Professor in Hamburg, I handed over to him that transcript. He was very much thankful to me for the transcript and said that when he returned to his home at Bonn, he would, at leisure, go through the transcript and write to me his opinion etc, regarding the work in detail. And he kept the transcript with him. But unfortunately he could not do or write anything in connection with this matter during my stay in Germany, being engaged as he was in some more pressing work.
I returned from Germany and remained wholly occupied in establishing the Singhi Jain Chair at Shantiniketan, in planning the Singhi Jain Series and other such works. When the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan was established in 1938 and the Bhāratiya Vidyā Series' was started, I earnestly desired to publish this Samdesarāsaka which was occupying my attention since so many years. And so acquiring again the Mss. at Poona and Pātan, I got a fresh press-copy prepared from them. After collating variants, I thought of publishing the work serially in the Bhāratiya Vidyā (the Hindi-Gujarāti quarterly). In the mean time I came to know of a third Ms. of the Samdesarāsaka which was in the Jñānabhaņdār of Achārya Shri Jinaharisāgarji at Lohāvat in Marwar. I acquired that Ms. also from the Acharya. Besides the text, that Ms. also contained a Tippaņa-like short Sanskrit commentary by some different writer. Hence I decided to print that commentary also. Thus ultimately the printing of the text of the present work with the variants from the three Mss, and the Sanskrit commentaries from the Poona and Lohāvat Mss. was begun in 1941.
In the beginning my intention was to publish merely the text with the Sanskrit commentaries and a few prefatory