Agam 39 Chhed 06 Mahanishith Sutra

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

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PREFACE
Several manuscripts of the Mahānisītha Srutaskandha are available in different Jaina repositories. Its easy commentaries are also available. A referance to the Mahānisītha Cūrņi is found in the catelogue of the Jaisalmare Jñāna Bhandāra. Despite the availability of so many MSS of the Mahānisīha, I found their text corrupt in a majority of the cases. It is almost forty years ago, that Āgamprabhākara Muni Shri Punyavijayji had got the Mahānisītha text transcribed from a palm-leaf ms. of Santinatha Bhandara at Cambay. The present edition of the Mahānisītha is based on this transcribed copy. The variant reading are noted from the following manuscripts and published editions of the Mahānisitha : 1. Śrī Lāvanyavijayajiyati Jñānbhandār, Rādhanapur (La). 2. A Palm-leaf copy (folios 111; Samvat, 1454; 33 x 1" of Sanghavi Pādā Bhandār, Pātan. 3. Sri Sāntinātha Jaina Jñānabhandār, Cambay (No. 35, folios 243) (Kham). 4. Acharyasri Sāgarji Mahārāja Jñānabhandār, Surat (Su. 5. Silāpattastha Mahānisītha Sūtra, Edited by Acarya Sri Anandasāgar Sürīswarji (Sa). 6. 'Studien zum Mahānisīha', Ed. by Frank Richard Hamm and Walther Schubring, Humburg,
1951 and 1966 (su). 7. Mahānisītha Sūtra ed. by Tapagacchiya Acarya Vijayajinendrasäri, Harsapuspāmsta Jaina
Granthmālā, Lakhānbāvală (a limited xerox edition). 8. A Manuscript copy of Mahānisītha corrected by Sri Vijayamitrānanda Sūri. 9. Three manuscript copies of Mahānisītha from L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad. 10. Manuscript copy of Khartargacchiya Sri Jinakusalasūri Jñānabhandār, Ahmedabad.
A report prepared by Dr. C. B. Tripathi, on the reseraches on the Mahanisitha in Germany, has been incorporated here for the benefit of the scholars. I am thankful to him for is consent.
I am also grateful to Dr. J. B. Shah, Director, Sharadaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre, Ahmedabad, for getting me the butter copy of the text free of cost. Finally, I express my deep sense of gratitude to 'Prakrit Text Society for the publication of the book.
- Rupendrakumar Pagariya