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FOREWARD
The Mahānisīha is one of those Jain Canonical texts which have been fortunate to have received considerable attention from several leading scholars. Dr. Chandrabhal Tripathi has given us in his valuable Report a competent and systematic survey of the Mahānisīha studies up to the present day. Pandit Pagariya's present edition of the Mahānisiha, besides usings the earlier editions of the text makes available some new textual data from MSS. that were not utilized so far, taking as the basis variants recorded by Late Muni Shri Punayavijayaji from several other MSS. It is hoped that this may be helpful in clarifying several points which have so far remained obscure, textually or linguistically. We thank Shri Pagariya and Dr. Tripathi for all the pains they have taken. It is a matter of satisfacation for the Prakrit Text Society that it could play a role in completing one of the large number of projects conceived and planned by Punyavijayaji for preparing authentic texts of the Canonical and postCanonical literature of the Jainas.
We also thank Dr. J. B. Shah, Director of Shardaben C. Educational Trust, Ahmedabad for type setting of this text.
AHMEDABAD AUGUST 1994
H. C. Bhayani, President Dalsukh Malvania, Secretary PRAKRIT TEXT SOCIETY
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