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Introduction.
§ I The idea underlying the present edition of Antagada-Dasão and Anuttarovavaiya-Dasão, the eighth and the ninth scriptures of the Jain Canon, is to supply their critically edited texts, in so far as it was possible for me to do, to the scholars and the students who are interested in the Jain Canon doctrinally or linguistically. The Jains have in their own way acquitted themselves of their duties by publishing the whole of their canon in their own way in various series viz. (1) Balusar Texts 1875-1886 Calcutta. (2) Hydrabad Series 1919-1920, Hydrabad (Deccan) (3) Agmodaya Samiti Texts. The first two series of the Jain texts are very carelessly edited and a serious student of the language would simply be disgusted with them. The last Agamodaya Samiti Texts are the only texts that are well printed and carefully edited. It should however be noted that, though they are workably good texts, they certainly can not approximate to the standard which the scholar imbued with the modern ideas of critical accuracy would expect. These texts are out of print and not The attempts, to publish some scrip
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