________________ Front cover: Depiction of the Holy Feet of the twenty-third Tirthankara, Lord Parsvanatha at the 'Svarnabhadra-kuta', atop the sacred hills of Shri Sammed Shikharji, Jharkhand, India. thills of Shri Samme he t Pic by Vijay K. Jain (2016) Acarya Kundakunda's Pancastikaya-samgraha - With Authentic Explanatory Notes in English (The Jaina Metaphysics) Vijay K. Jain Non-copyright This work may be reproduced, translated and published in any language without any special permission provided that it is true to the original. ISBN: 978-81-932726-5-7 Rs. 750/ Published, in the year 2020, by: Vikalp Printers Anekant Palace, 29 Rajpur Road Dehradun-248001 (Uttarakhand) India E-mail: vikalp_printers @rediffmail.com Tel.: (0135) 2658971, Mob.: 9412057845, 9760068668 Printed at: Vikalp Printers, Dehradun