Agam 39 Chhed 06 Mahanishith Sutra

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

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MAHĀNISIHA STUDIES AND EDITION IN GERMANY
12. MANUSCRIPTS!2
12.0 Weber's study of the MNA in Ind.. tud. 16.1883 was based on the single and defective Ms. in Berlin (see 1.1-2). For their studies and edition, distributed over three or two volumes respectively, Professors Schubring, Hamm and Deleu could luckily utilize some more Mss. from India; thus the material used by them consists of eight original, some of them very valuable, Mss. and one modern transcript. We present an inventory of the Mss. of the MNA which were available to them"3.
12.1 Berlin, State Library (Staatsbibliothek) 1. Siglum: B. Ms.or.fol.764. Paper Ms., 96 Folia, datedl. See Weber, Verz.#1876, where lengthy citations are given. The Ms. is well written, but very incorrect, see above 1.3, fn.3. 2. Siglum: b. Ms.or.fol.1887. Paper Ms., 91 Folia, dated", however, by a second scribe. See Schubring, Jn-Hss.#92.
12.2 Cambay, śāntinātha Jaina Bhandar 1. Siglum: c. Palm-leaf Ms., 220 Folia. For c'escription etc. sce Peterson, 1st Report, P.(87),No.144; Hamm, MNSt.C,p.7; Deleu, MNSt.B,p.3; and Muni Punyavijaya, Cat. ŚBh.Chy.,p.62, No.36. It was accessible to scholars in Germany in the form of microfilms which were prepared by Professor W. Norman Brown and then supplied by Keshavlāl Premchand Mody of Ahmedabad to Hamburg. The Ms. is characterized by Deleu (p.5): "the superiority of c as to general trustworthiness" and "th. Ms that bears the best character of accuracy". It ends on Fol. 220b with the beginning of a donor's prasasti (secunda manu); its text supplied by Hamm and Punyaw.jayaji is reproduced here:
12 Scc also Velankar, Jinarutnakosa, p.304, which has been mentioned by Deleu (MNSt.B.p.4): "For other extant Mss (which to my regret it has proved impossible to sccurc) scc H. D. Vclankar ...".
13 Thc Sigla of thc Mss. utilized in Germany are: B, 6 (Berlin); <, C (Cambay); K (Baroda); M (Mody <Patan); P, P, * (Poona); and Pu (Punyavijaya <Patan). The Mss. c, C, and Pu are the most important palm-lcaf ones from Indian collections in Cambay (Whambhūl, Stambhatinha) and Pāçan (Putian(a)).
14 samvat 1500 varse püasūhu Mahamümidu-jay'u rijye Devasa Subhasthüne Süha-Rämasi-putru-Bhädūbhārya-Lakşmi-putra-Jūjā pustiku lişāpitā, pam. Mahisāgara.
15 The scribal remark reads: śri-Junagadha-vástavya-Prāgvāļa-vamśc Vyddha-śākhāyām Soni śri pa suŞimaji, su-Rāmaji, su-Manaji, su-Soni-Pāsavira: c pitā-paksa; atha mátā-pakse: Stambhatirthe Vāstavya Tapāpakse sri-Hiravijayasuri-rājy(c) Sosnil-Somasi-bhäfryā]-bāi-Karamāi-putri-bai-Vabāi-putra-Soni-Pasavirai 45 āgama-no bhandāra punya-hotu Sao-Rāghavaji-Dhanuā-ni sākhi sānidhyaim kari karyo chai, karma-kayamokşartham cêti bhadram. samvut 1721 varșe posa vadi !0 dine.