Agam 39 Chhed 06 Mahanishith Sutra

Author(s): Punyavijay, Rupendrakumar Pagariya, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Granth Parishad

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MAHĀNISĪHA STUDIES AND EDITION IN GERMANY
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91. PUBLICATIONS
91.0 The Mahānisiha-ajjhayana or -suyakkhandha (MNA)', surely the youngest amongst the texts of the group of the Cheya-suttas (or, Cheda-sūtras) of the Jaina Canon, has been, since 1883, subjected to many in depth studies and a critical edition in Germany. The scholars whose contributions have laid the foundations of our knowledge about the MNA are: Albrecht Weber, Ernst Leumann, Walther Schubring, FrankRichard Hamm and Jozef Deleu?. We present, therefore, an annotated list of the publications concerned. Because all the most important books (MNSt.A.B.C; Jn-Hss., etc.) are not only out of print since long but also not easily available to scholars in India, it seems necessary to go into some details in these and other cases.
11.1 Albrecht Weber, HTJ - SLJ 1.1.1 Über die Heiligen Texte der Jainas (HTJ)
IN: Indische Studien, Leipzig: Brockhaus. Vol.16.1883.pp.211-479 and Vol.17.1885.
pp.1-90. See specially Vol.16,pp.455-465, where the MNA has been critically introduced, some of its passages (e.g. 1.828.2) are quoted and discussed. Also see 1.1.2. 1.1.2 Albrecht Weber, Sacred Literature of the Jainas (SLJ)
translated from the German by Dr. H. W. Smyth, Pennsylvania. IN: The Indian Antiquary, A Journal of Oriental Research ... edited by Richard Carnac Temple.
Vol.XXI.1892 (Bombay), in instalments. This is a translation of 1.1.1. For the MNA see pp.181-185 (June, 1892). We quote the English version and norinalize the transliteration. (1.2 Weber, Verz.(1853-1891)
Verzeichnis der Sanskrit- und Prakrit-Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek
zu Berlin von Albrecht Weber. Vol.II,Part 2. 1888. In this monumental catalogue of Indic Mss. in the collection of the State Library of Germany at Berlin (cf. K.L. Janert, ABCIM.I (see 1.15.2),p.30f.#20), Weber cites, under
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This is the title occurring in the text itself (e.g. MNA.I.$1.2) and its colophons (I.$1.28; 11.837; III.548; IV.$17:p.182,27; V.p.205,35; V1.89*.1.p.38; VIII.S 46:p.104,35). The class designation -sulta uscd in MNSI.A (1918) has been corrected by Schubring himself, sec, for instance, MNSt.B,p.171, (n. 1.
? We may add here the names of Prof. W. Norman Brown, Vakil sri Keshavlal Premchand Mody and Muni śri Punyavijayaji also, without whose active help the German studies and cdition undertaken after 1948 would not have been possiblc.