Agam 39 Chhed 06 Mahanishith Sutra

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

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(2) Das Aupapātika Sütra, erstes Upānga der Jainas. Leipzig (AKM.8.2) 1883. 166 pp. (3) Die Avaíyaka-Erzählungen (1. Heft). Leipzig (AKM.10.2) 1897. 48 (+1) pp. Both works of Leumann (reprinted 1966) are referred to in the German contributions on the Mahānisiha. (See also Nalini Balbir, Récits d'exégèse jaina, vol. I. Introduction et traductions commentées des "Āvasyaka-Erzählungen", forthcoming, dealing exhaustively with the Āvaśyaka narratives and Leumann's work thereon).
11.21 Indian publications of the MNA. (1) ācārya śri Anandasāgara-sūri, the ūgamôddhāraka (see SIJB-L. Alsdorf Mem. Vol., p.302) got 45 texts of the Canon inscribed on copper-plates (now being preserved in the Agama-mandira at Surat) and on marble slabs in the Agama-mandira at Palitāņā. Morcover, the texts as thus inscribed were published on paper of big size, ca. 500 copies, which were distributed to various Bhandāras and learned monks. The copy originally presented to Muni śri Punyavijayaji is row housed in the L.D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad". This publication has been used by Shri R. Pagaria. (2) Recently, ācārya śri Vijayendra-sūri of the Tapä-gaccha has edited the MNA in the form of a press-copy prepared by muni Jinendravijaya-gaņi at Jamnagar in Vira-sam. 2507 (srī Āgama-sudhā-sindhuh, daśamo vibhāgah = śri-Harsa-puspâmsta-jaina-granthamālā, 77. Lakhā-bāval, Säntipuri, Saurashtra, 240 pp. See scribal remarks on pp. 239240). This has equally been utilized by Shri R. Pagaria.
1 In January 1993, the non-academic authorities indexed the Mss., books and even a xerox-copy of the Chcdasūtras, indeed in sharp contrast to the generous help rendered by muni śri Punyavijayaji and muni śri Jinavijayaji, more than fifty years ago, to European scholars like Prof. Schubring and Prof. Alsdorf. Through the kindness of sri Dalsukhbhai Mālvania the Prakrit Text Socicly got a xerox-copy of this publication prepared, which I have been able to usc.