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218 RECENT PUBLICATIONS than previous Indian editions. The text is well printed on good paper. There is no doubt that the Jaina Agama Series will be greatly welcomed by scholars in India and abroad. 1 Cf. Colette Caillat, JA (1976), pp. 227-231. 2 OLZ (1924), Sp. 483 = Kleine Schriften (Wiesbaden, 1977), p. 436. Acarangasutram and Sutrakrtangasutram with the Niryukti of Acarya Bhadrabahu Svami and the commentary of Silankacarya. Originally edited by the late Acarya Sagaranandasuriji Maharaja. Re-edited with appendices etc. by Muni Jambuvijayaji (Lala Sundarlal Jain Agamagranthamala, vol. I). Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1978, 42, 16, 288, 14, 400 pp. Rs. 120.00. One of the best-known editions of the Svetambara canonical texts and commentaries is the series published by the Agamodaya Samiti in Bombay about sixty years ago in MS. form on loose leaves. Under the supervision of Muni Jambuvijayaji this edition will be reprinted in six volumes. Apart from a photomechanical reprint of the original editions published in 1916 and 1917 this volume contains a long preface in Sanskrit (pp. 17-42), detailed tables of contents (pp. 1-16 and 1-14) and a series of appendices (pp. 287-400). The appendices contain pratika-s omitted in the original edition (pp. 289-305 and 345-357), variant readings of the commentary (pp. 305-320 and 358-378), alphabetical lists of sutras quoted in the commentary (pp. 321-326 and 379-385), of prose sutras (pp. 327-332 and 386-387), of verse sutras (pp. 333-335 and 388-397) and of niryukti-s (pp. 336-341 and 398-400). In the introduction Muni Jambuvijayaji gives some brief information on the organisation of the present edition (pp. 41-42). According to him the late Punyavijayaji had collected many variant readings of both texts and commentaries from old manuscripts in Patan, Jaisalmer, Cambay, etc. The variants of the commentaries are given in the appendices insofar as they contain correct or better readings. Those of little importance have been omitted (ye tu alpamahattvaka" pathabhedas te upeksitah). The variants of the mulasutras are not given because they have been listed in the editions of the Jaina-Agama Series published by the Shri Mahavira Jaina Vidyalaya in Bombay. No further details on the manuscripts consulted by . Punyavijayaji are given by the editor and the variants are listed without references to specific manuscripts. According to Bollee a second edition of the Agamodaya Samiti edition of the Sutrakstanga with Silanka's Tika was published in 1950-1953 in the Sri Godiparsva Jain Granth mala.' This edition gives in the notes readings of two palmleaf manuscripts from the Santinath bhandar written in s. 1327 and s. 1349 and of one paper manuscript in the same bhandar. I have not been able to consult this edition and to see to what degree the same variants are listed in this edition and in the present one. It is to be hoped that in future volumes the editor may give some information on the manuscripts from which the variants have been taken. The reprint is printed on good paper and bound in a solid binding. Without any doubt, this new edition of the Agamodaya Samiti series will be very welcome. The fact that this edition is not printed in MS. form will certainly be appreciated by European readers.. 1 Willem B. Bollee, Studien zum Suyagada (Wiesbaden, 1977), p. 3.