________________ Foreword tive, correct and reliable. They have been, no doubt, of considerable help to scholars and students trained in the modern western methods of criticism and scholarship who by the use of these editions get their ground prepared for doing further work of exploring the vast field and doing research-work therein. The number of Jaina students and scholars trained in the western method is gradually increasing and side by side with it, it is natural that the appetite for critical apparatus should also be on the increase. Editions based on a critical examination of the Manuscript-material available and furnished with scholarly and critical notes and introduction are expected to quench the appetite, and it is no doubt a welcome feature that people have turned their attention now in that direction. The present volume will have, I hope, its second edition more critical and scholarly as the editor expresses it in the preface, and it will be quite justified and reasonable on my part to expect a school of critical editors opened by Mr. Cbokshi and his circle of friends in Ahmedabad doing a great service to the Sacred Literature of the Jainas in the modern critical way. Gujarat College K. V. Abhyankar, AHMEDABAD. I Professor of Sanskrit & July 1932. Ardha-Magadhi. te cozpocted and oritioavailable ning altome.come quonokial notes and
