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INTRODUCTION
TIFS edition of the Nirayāvaliyão or the Nirayavalisūtra is chiefly meant for the use of Ardhamāgadhi student of the First Year's course in Arts of the Bombay University for the year 1933, and is the first critical edition of the last five upāngas of the Jain Canon. It is true that Dr. S. Warren published in 1879 his edition of the Nirayāvaliyāsutta, een upānga der Jaina's, Amsterdam (w in the footnotes): it was followed by Rai Bahadur Dhanapati Sing's edition of the text with Candrasuri's commentary and Gujarati gloss in 1885: the Āgamodaya Samiti of Surat also published a third edition of this work in 1922 ; but none of them could satisfy the needs of a critical scholar or a University student. The first of these editions contains only the first section, i. e., the eighth upānga, of the Jain Canon, while the Bombay University has prescribed all the five sections. As the Jain studies were not well advanced in the days
