Spiritual Awakening and other Essays

SR No.: 006930
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamalchand Sogani
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy
Publication Year: 2008
Total Pages: 224
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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manuscript is earlier than Vikrama Samvat 1775 or 1718 A.D. At the outset, and only on the basis of these two manuscripts, Prof. Bhayani constituted the text of Paumacariu.
However, some time later, a third manuscript was secured from the Paņdulipi collection of Jaina Vidyā Samsthāna Digambara Jaina Atiśaya Kșetra Śrī Mahāvīrajī, Jaipur by Pandit Chainsukhadasaji Nyāyatīrtha and it was sent to Prof. Bhayaņi. Though the copying date of the manuscript (1541 Vikarma Samvat or 1484 A.D.) is twenty years later than the Poona manuscript, yet the original text was preserved more faithfully in it than in any of the other two manuscripts and thus it was concluded that Mahāvīrajī's manuscript was based on an original which was older than the original of either Poona or Samgānera manuscript. So Prof. Bhayani was constrained to reconstitute the text of the first twenty sandhis of Vidyādharakānda on the basis of Mahāvīrajī's manuscript.
Prof. Bhayani says “A very significant fact may be noted in this connection. As stated above in the beginning, I had constituted the text with the help of the rnanuscripts in Poona and Samganera only, as the manuscript of Mahaviraji was not available at that time. The text so constituted has numerous lines which were metrically defective. I had noted down all such cases and after due consideration suggested probable emendations for most of these cases. Later on, when I could secure the Mahāvīraji's manuscript, I found that in almost all cases in which Poona and Samganera had a reading which spoiled the metre, Mahaviraji's manuscript had a corresponding reading that preserved the metre, and some ninety per cent of the emendations suggested by me were
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Spiritual Awakening (Samyagdarśana) and Other Essays