Tulsi Prajna 1992 07

SR No.: 524571
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 154
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 8 MB

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Book Review
PRĀCINA ARDHAMĀGADHI KI KHOJA MEN: By K. R. CHANDRA, Former Head of the Department of Prākrit and Pāli, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, Pub : Prakrit Jain Vidya Vikas Fund, Ahmedabad, 1991, pp. 112, Price : Rs. 32/-.
This trail-blazing work on reconstitution of original ArdhaMāgadhi (AMG) Canon is based on years of careful and painstak. ing research.
Religious-minded Ś'vetāmbara Jain community donated munificent grants for the publication of their sacred Canons. It may be due to the manuscripts material (Critical apparatus) available to the editor, and/or his insufficient grounding in textual criticism or textconstitution or a deliberate attempt at simplification of the text (as noted by Muni Puņyavijayaji in his edition of the Kalpa Sūtra) that we find confusing readings in editions of the Canon.
With due respect to the editors of the following editions, I give an example of the AMG formations of the Sk word aan as found in different editions : (See pp. 15-93) from the book under review)
(1) a (W. Schubring) (2) RUTA (9 times) and 007 (7 times) in the Āgamodaya Samiti Ed.
(3) apr (1), and equor (15) in Jain Vishva Bhārati Ed. · (4) Staroor (2), statuut (6), STUOT (8) in Mahāvīra Jain Vidyalaya Ed.
The variants of this word in the Mahāvira Jaina Vidyālaya Ed. are as follows: ferrout, A, tarus, a, Brzy Pop : This confusing variety is not limited to forms of words only but even to sentences. For example (pp. 94-98 of the book under review) the very first sentence of the Acārānga Sūtra (which is found at the beginning of other works) is seen as follows: (9) qui arck ! doi maut ganreTy ******
-Acāränga Sutra () a raavi Taa gamuta....
-Sūtrakrtānga Sūtra Finding such a chaotic state of the sacred Āgama, Dr. Chandra became haunted" with the idea of restitution of the original texts. He published a number of papers in order to invite the attention of scholars to this linguistically anamolous state of the sacred texts.