Universal Values of Prakrit Texts

SR No.: 006701
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Prem Suman Jain
Publisher: Bahubali Prakrit Vidyapeeth and Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan
Publication Year: 2011
Total Pages: 368
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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that of Sakalakirti's Yasodharacarita, while the pages she reproduces from this manuscript all have an Apabhramsa text.
All the pages of Raidhu's version have been referred to above. Here we list and identify the pages from Puspadanta's version (ed. Jain 1972): Doshi 1985 fig. 9 (Private collection, Agra): end of sandhi 2, k. 20. Doshi 1985 fig. 13 (Shri Digambara Jain Atishaya Kshetra, Shri Mahavirji, Jaipur): sandhi 2, k. 33, lines 2-5 (in Jain 1972). Garg 1991 fig. 29: sandhi 1, k. 6. Garg 1991 fig. 18: sandhi 3, k. 1-2. Garg 1991 fig. 7: sandhi 4, k. 21.
Garg 1991 fig. 22: sandhi 2, k. 6. Garg 1991 fig. 16 (ka): sandhi 4, k. 12.
If nothing else, this investigation shows that not only illustrated manuscripts of Raidhu's Jasaharacariu are relatively rare. None of them available so far is in its complete form or has been fully and properly described so that getting even basic information such as the number of pages, the number of illustrations and their location in the manuscript, or the colophons with the dates, is problematic. It would seem that at least one of them has had a rather adventurous life, in India, England and the United States. Such dispersions are unfortunately the fate of many illustrated Indian manuscripts.
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Balbir Nalini (1988): Souper de jour: quatrains. Edition critique, traduction et commentaire de l'Aṇatthamipaddhai de Raidhu, poème apabhramśa. Indologica Taurinensia 14, 1987-88 (Prof. C. Caillat Felicitation Volume), pp. 47-77.
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