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
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Mody (hence Siglum M) and sent to Prof. Schubring2. This could be used for MNSt.B. This transcript is similarly being preserved in Hamburg.
12.5 Baroda, Muni Hamsavijayaji Bhaņdāra, No.1797 Siglum: K. Paper Ms., 164 Folia (Size: 11 by 5 inches, 5 lines to a page, țabo occupies 2 to 3 lines of unequal length; 43-52 akşaras in a line; fair writing). Not dated. The original Ms. was lent, with the consent of the authorities, by Muni Punyavijayaji to Prof. Schubring. Deleu describes it to be in "excellent condition". It contains, with a tabo, Chap.I-V only; "... it appears that a continuation was never intended" (Deleu,p.4)27.
12.6 Prof. Schubring, while he was in Almedabad, was shown by K. P. Mody (cf. 2.4.2) mo: than eight (paper) Mss. of the MNA which were partly utilized by him, see Mi St.B,p.106.
12. NOTE: Prof. Schubring and his colleagues have expressed in warm words their gratitude to Prof. W. Norman Brown, sri Keshavlāl P. Mody and specially to Muni śri Punyavijáyaji for their kindness in making them the microfilms, transcript or the original of important Mss. from Indian collections available in Germany, see e.g. MNSt.B,p.7, p.106; MNSt.C,p.4, p.63. (Their Sigla M and Pu are further indications.)
2 Deleu, MNSt.B,p.3 notices a "curious colophon" on p.64 of this "Ms.": samvat 1456 varse kārtika vadi 12 soma-vāre sri-Stambhatinhe fie in Cambay] Pancakalpa-pustakan likhāpitam asti.
26 See, however, the remark of Deleu: "No date, but the outward appearance being almost identical with that of Ms. ß in Schubring's Kalpasūtra p.16 (Berlin Ms.or.fol.2108, dated samvat 1812) makes it likely that K was written at about the same time" (MNSt.B,p.4).
27 JRK p.304 registers two manuscripts in Baroda, in Muni Hamsavijayaji's Collection, No.781 and No.1575, but not a single nianuscript from Acarya Kantivijayaji's Collection. Both, Hamsavijayaji's and Kantivijayaji's, collections are housed in the same building (Sri Atmārāmaji Jaina Jñāna Mandira) in Narasimhaji-ni pol, Baroda, vide JRK, p.iv,No.17:BK, and p.v, No.41:Hamsa,
To clarify the matter I requested Muni śri Silacandravijayaji, who kindly procured the following information in January 1993:
of the Mahānisiha-ajjhayana thcrc arc at present thrce Mss., No.781, No.1575 and No.1797 ("sa-stabaka", 168 Foll.) in sri-Hamsavijayaji Bhandara and one Ms., No.198 (92 Foll.), in sri-Käntivijayaji Bhandara at Baroda. The Ms. utilized formerly in Germany can only bc No.1797 of the Hamsavijayaji Collection.