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Yuvacharya Shri Madhukar Muni ji of Shraman Sangh as its Editorin-chief has also been very useful. The scholarly Acharya Shri Mahaprajna of Terpanth has written Acharanga Bhashya, a detailed commentary on Acharanga in Sanskrit-Hindi. This also contains new information and views based on research. I have written this commentary after studying all these available elaborative works on Agams. I have included whatever I found useful and acceptable from the works of various scholars giving them due credit. If at some place I have missed inadvertently, I hereby express my indebtedness to them.
The style of translation-In itself Acharanga is a voluminous Agam. Moreover, as it is in aphoristic style, it becomes imperative to provide a detailed commentary, and this makes the work all the more expansive. However I have taken the middle path in this commentary.
I have given a free flowing simple translation of the original text. In order to connect the preceding and following phrases, sentences have been added in parenthesis. The meanings of difficult and uncommon words have also been given with such words. Initially I had planned to give a glossary of such words, but later I thought that it is easier for the reader to grasp the meaning if the words are explained with the main body of the text. Therefore the explanations about difficult words have been included in the elaboration. In English rendering such words have been transliterated in italic font. This will make it convenient for the reader to find and understand such terms.
Thus, instead of a very brief or a very detailed work, I have tried to make this translation-elaboration simple and easy to understand.
The able scholars Srichand ji Surana and Surendra ji Bothara have provided their assistance in editing and English translation respectively with complete devotion. In the same way painter Sardar ji has done a commendable job of illustrating the themes. The illustrations have made many difficult topics interesting and easy to understand.
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