Sambodhi 1994 Vol 19

SR No.: 520769
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jitendra B Shah, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 182
Language: English, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Sambodhi, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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Vol. XIX, 1994-1995
REVIEWS
173 noticed that Uttarajjhāya (Uttarājjhayānaim?) published in the Jaina Svetambara Terāpanthi Mahāsabhā Āgama Granthamālā contains a real pada index, although Yamayaki has not been able to procure the edition in Japan, and hence they could not avail of it. He would be happy to know that many of the Jaina Āgama texts published in the Jaina Āgama texts Granthamālā Series of Śrī Mahāvīra Jaina Vidyālaya, Bombay (Pin 400 036 : India) do give the Suttanukkamo (Index of the Sūtras), or Gāhānukkamo (Index of the timt pāda of the Gāthas), as in the case of the Ācārāngasutra, the Sütrakstāngasūtra, the Nandisutta, the Anuogaddārāim, the Dasaveyaliyasuttam, the Uttarājjhayanāim and the Avassayasuttam. The same is true about the Mūläcära of Ācārya Vattaker published by the Bharatiya Jnānapitha, New Delhi.
By using a computer they could make considerable advances in the compilation of indexes of the canonical texts. So far, complicated large computers such as the mainframe with both a high computing ability and a large memory size were required for such a study. This not only necessiated cubersome operations but it was also difficult for linguists to analyse texts by using a computer with complex operations. Personal computers are relatively easy to use for linguists. But, their computing ability has been considerably inferior to that of big computers; this shortcoming has made them insufficient for the analysis of text data. As a rusult of down-sizing effects, their abilities have recently risen to a much higher level to become compettitive with those of big computers. Such advances in the development of personal computers take the compilation of the idex within the scope of realization. By using the Macintosh TM personal computer Dr. Yamazaki and his co-editors started to compile the pāda indexes and reverse pāda indexes of the canonical texts. His group has already put the five Jain canonical texts on the Macintosh TM personal computer, e.g. the Ayāranga, Sūyagada, Uttarājjhayana (he, however spells it 'Uttarajjhāyā'), Dasaveyaliya and Isibhāsiyaim. They are at present making analysis of the metres and alos compiling the indexes and reverse indexes of words. It would be interesting to them if they compare their indices with the ones which are already published - indicles of words, of grammatical forms etc., - in the above mentioned Jaina Agama Series of the Mahavire Jaina Vidyalaya, Bombay.
The volume on the Dasaveyāliya contains a pada index and reverse pāda