Syadwad Muktawali

SR No.: 020789
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S A Upadhyay
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1969
Total Pages: 50
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 2 MB

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PREFACE
This is my first attempt at preparing a critical edition of an unpublished text. After I attended the Seminar on Manuscriptology and Textual Criticism (Bangalore, 1963) at the invitation of the Ministry of Scientific and Cultural Affairs, Government of India, my Guru the late Professor H. D. Velankar, encouraged me to edit these two small works with a view to acquiring some practical training in text-editing. This attempt of mine owes its success to his constant encouragement and untiring guidance.
The MS. of Sri Yaśasvatsāgara's Syâdvīdamultāvali was placed in my hands by the noted Jain Muni Śrī Mrgendra in 1964. While editing this text, I happened to come across the MS. of an. other work, viz. Bhīvasaptatikā, by the same author. Though conscious of my limitations in the field of Astrology, I ventured to edit this text with a view to bring into light one more work of the author.
I am grateful to Dr. A. N. Upadhye, Dr. A. S. Gopani and Dr. H. C. Bhayani for their valuable suggestions in preparing the edition of these two works, to Dr. V. Raghavan and Dr. Kunjuni Raja for giving me the details of the available MSS. of these works and to Dr. A. D. Pusalkar for his valued co-operation and encouragement.
Thanks are also due to the authorities of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, and the Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Bharatiya Samskrit Vidyamandir, Ahmedabad, for kindly making the MSS. available to me.
The authorities of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan have always encouraged me in my academic pursuits, and I would be ungrateful if I do not express my sense of profound thanks to them.
October 1, 1968
S. A. UPADHYAYA