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COMMENTARY (VRITTI) BY HARIBHADRA
Haribhadra Suri is a famous and serious commentator of Agams. He authored detailed commentaries on Avashyak Sutra and Dashavaikalik Sutra. His commentaries on Nandi Sutra and Anuyogadvar Sutra are brief. His period is believed to be eighth century of the Vikram Calendar. COMMENTARY (VRITTI) BY MALADHARI
After Haribhadra Suri, Acharya Maladhari Hemchandra has written a much detailed commentary on Anuyogadvar Sutra. His period is twelfth century of the Vikram Calendar.
BASIS OF THIS EDITION
The subject of Anuyogadvar Sutra is very complex. It is very difficult to understand it without elaboration. Even with brief elaboration it is being published in two parts. In the first part, the portion up to Sutra 262, namely NAVA RASA, in the chapter of NAVA NAAM has been covered. The later portion is included in the second Part. After studying many commentaries on it, a simple and easily intelligible prose style has been adopted for its translation and elaborations. Further, the elaboration is of a medium order because a detailed elaboration would have made it voluminous.
The theme and style of Anuyogadvar Sutra is slightly different from those of other Agams. It is not easy to understand this work because it has abundance of technical terms. Therefore care has been taken to provide meanings and definitions of technical terms along with the translation and elaboration using different font. As all such terms do not have equivalent terms in English, the original term has been given in roman script with explanatory translation in parenthesis. This may appear cumbersome at first glance but should be more convenient than repeatedly consulting a glossary at the end of the book.
The following books have been consulted for translation and elaboration
The first head of Shraman Sangh, Jain Agam Ratnakar, Acharya Samrat Shri Atmaram Ji Maharaj was the first author of a Hindi
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