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STORY OF MY CONTACT WITH DR. A. N. UPADHYE
Till my M. A. in philosophy in 1955, I could not hear about the works of Dr. A. N. Upadhye. The reason might be that I offered the papers of Sankara's Vedanta and Ramanuja's Vedānta at my M. A. level. Though I offered Vedānta at my M. A. level, yet Dr. P. T. Raju, the then head of the Deptt. of Philosophy, University of Rajasthan asked me to work on the topic 'Ethical Doctrines in Jainism' for my Ph. D. thesis under the supervision of Dr. V. H. Date. I readily agreed to work on this topic. May be, this was due to my reverence for Pt. Chainsukh Das Nyayatirtha, Principal, Jaina Sanskrit College, Jaipur and Master Motilalji Sanghi founder of Sri Sanmati Pustakalaya, Jaipur. After my registration in 1957 I started my work seriously and then I studied the introductions of Pravacanasāra, Paramātmaprakāśa and Kārttikeyānuprekṣā along with other works relevant to my topic of research. Out of these, the two are Prakṛta works of great Jaina Acaryas, namely, Kundakunda and Svāmī Kumara and the third is an Apabhramsa work of Yogindu. Dr. Upadhye has written an erudite introduction to these works. His introductions are critical, analytical, comparative and historical. His technique of editing works is unprecedented and presents an imitable model for the present-day scholars. His command over Sanskrit, Prākṛta, Apabhramsa, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, English and Hindi languages is unusual, therefore, highly commendable. He deals with a topic from many points of
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