Agam 39 Chhed 06 Mahanishith Sutra

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

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MAHĀNISÏHA STUDIES AND EDITION IN GERMANY
205); Appx.I.B: ... of Dehlāno pāḍo, Ahmedabad (pp.205-255); then on pp.257ff.: Appx.II (Cat. collected during the year 1883-84); Appx.III (Extracts from Mss.). Appx.I.A-B contain the earliest lists of Mss. at Paṭan and at Ahmedabad respectively. On the basis of Ms.No.278 (Dharmakagara's Kupakṣa-kausika-sahasra-kirana with auto-commentary: see our fn.5 and 7), Bhandarkar analyses the contents of this work in details, see pp. 144155. This Report, as those of Peterson, was even otherwise much utilized by both Ernst Leumann and Walther Schubring. See also Janert, ABCIM.I,p.127 (#273: BP).
11.17 The Jaina-Granthâvali, a forerunner to the JRK (1.18), was published by the Jaina Śvetâmbara Conference (Bombay), samvat 1965.1-367,1-112(Indices), 1-3(Errata) pp. It is the first consolidated register of Jaina Mss. (and texts and works) based on the lists of Patan (6 Bhaṇḍāras), Jesalmer (1), Limbadi (1), Cambay (1: jaina śālā), Bhavnagar (1), Ahmedabad (2 bh.), Koday (1), Bombay (1 in Anantanathaji Temple), and on the Bṛhaṭṭipaṇikā (dated sam. 1556). On p.16-17,No.29 it records 14 Mss. of the MNA adding two footnotes: 1. about its extent (3500, 4200, or 4548 granthâgra) and 2. Haribhadra's "editorship". This book was therefore used by W.Schubring, MNSt.A,pp.1-2. T1.18 Velankar, JRK 1944
Jinaratnakosa An Alphabetical Register of Jain Works and Authors. Vol.I
Works, by Hari Damodar Velankar. Poona, BhORI (Govt. Or.Ser.C, No.4) 1944. i-[xii], 1-466 pp. (Vol.II was prepared but has not yet been published.) This is the most indispensable "consolidated register" of Jaina texts and works on the basis of printed catalogues and hand-written lists of Jaina Mss. and is thus a very useful research tool for Jainology (ABCIM.I,p.156,#330). 11.19 Kapadia, Cat. BhORI.17.2 1936
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Descriptive Cat. of the Govt. Collections of Mss. deposited at the BhORI, Vol.XVII compiled by Hiralal Rasikdas Kapadia. Poona, BhORI. Pt.ii.1936 (with palaeographical appendices). XXII,363,24 pp.
Kapadia gives on pp.29-36 full details of the Poona Mss. of the MNA used by Schubring and others. It is, therefore, referred to by Deleu. For other parts of Vol.17 (and Vol.XVIII,Pt.1, Vol.XIX,Pt.1) by Kapadia see Janert, ABCIM.I, p.124, # 264. For Vol.17. Pt. 1-2 see also Schubring, Kl.Schr.(1.10),p.454.
11.20 Leumann, Übersicht 1934 etc.
(1) Übersicht über die Avasyaka-Literatur von Ernst Leumann. Aus dem Nachlaß herausgegeben von Walther Schubring. Hamburg, ANISH.4.1934. c,IV,56 pp., 2°. The Übersicht [= A Survey of the Avasyaka-Literature] is a monumental work, prepared in the last century and is the proof of the genius of E. Leumann who could utilize only Mss. (in Berlin, Strasbourg, and from Poona) for his valuable studies. Übersicht,p.28b deals with Naila (MNA,Chap.IV), cf. MNSt.B,p.174.
The two other important publications of Ernst Leumann are:
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