Gyananjali Punyavijayji Abhivadan Granth

SR No.: 012058
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ramnikvijay Gani
Publisher: Sagar Gaccha Jain Upashray Vadodara
Publication Year: 1969
Total Pages: 610
Language: Gujarati, Hindi, English
Classification: Smruti_Granth & Articles
File Size: 15 MB

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In the Prakrit Text Series Muni Punyavijayaji published in 1962 his edition of another voluminous Katha-work, the Aigānaka-maṇikota with Viti.
The above is not a complete list of all the big an small works edited by him. Perhaps I have missed some smil works published several years ago. I am not referring here to his various research articles since they are printed in this felicitat on volume (Janjali) along wità date of publier tion,
But the most important works that he has critically edited ani is still editing are the Jaius Canonical Texts, of which tw volames are already published-(1) Nandisutram with Cuni (1966 A. D.) and (2) Nandisutram with various commentaries (1968 A D.). The critical editions of the Anvyogadiārasütun and the Prajñā panasūtram are under printing.
A few words may be said about this great venture of the Muniji. For several years he silently continued to study and collate maauscripts of the forty-five Jaina Agama texts cad their Niryuk is, Bhasyas, Canis aut Tikas. One can imagine the number of texts and their manuscripts that he had to find out, study and collate single-hanted for several years. He had only two or three scribes working with him and even payment of the salaries of these scribes was extremely difficult till sometime in 1947-48 Saeth Kastu bhai came to know of it and paid off the dues and began giving active patronage in all such activities of the Muniji. Several other Jaina merchants had helped him before and have been helping him even now. I am only citing one instance of his "ayacakatva." Sometime in 1950 the Muniji went to Jesalmer and reorganised the whole bhandara there under difficult circumstances including scarcity of drinking water. He not only reorganised whole bhandara and catalogued it but made all arrangements for preservation of the rare manuscripts and with foresight he also managed to get prepared microfilms of almost all the rare palm-leaf and paper manuscripts, Over and above this he collated on the spot or got copied several manuscripts of Sanskrit and Prakrit texts which have been not only useful to him but also to several other scholars in India and abroad.
Here he discovered for the first time the earliest surviving palm-leaf manuscript on the soil of India, namely, the Visesavasyakabhäsy a of Jinabhadragani Kṣamāśramena, dating from the tenth century. Here he discovered a commentary of the Jyotiskarandaka by Muni Pädalipta Süri. Here were noted several other manuscripts, though formerly known, but whose importance was made known only because he scrutinized them. For example, a manuscript of Subandhu's Vasavadattā gave some important new readings. A manuscript of the Kiranavali (a Nyaya text) had some further chapters which were hitherto unknown. Complete text of Kiraṇāvali was never obtained or published. The Jesalmer manuscript preserved some more portion not traced before. The palm-leaf manuscript of Tallvasangraha was found to be very important for its readings could not be utilized when the G.O. Series edition was published. Instances like these can be added to show the great service he has been able to render to the cause of Indology by his visit to Jesalmer.