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( viii) Indian cultural history. Like the Buddhist Mahāvyutpatti it has preserved valuable lists appertaining to the realia of Indian life. The readers can form an idea of its contents from the Introduction in English and in Hindi printed in the beginning of the text.
This edition has been prepared by Muni Shri Punyavijayji, the venerable doyen of Prakrit language and literature in India to-day. He has devoted a whole life-time to the preparation of critical editions of the Agamic texts. His ascetic discipline and rigorous critical faculties have enabled him to cope single-handed with a problem of vast magnitude in the domain of Prakrit text criticism. The Prakrit Text Society has been fortunate to receive his blessings and also the fruits of his lifelong labours in the form of those critical editions which like the Angavijja now being presented will be published by the Society in due course. On behalf of ourselves and our countrymen we offer our most respectful gratitude to Muni Shri Punyavijayji.
The programme of work undertaken by the Society involves considerable expenditure, towards which liberal grants have been made by the following Governments : Government of India
10,000/Madras
Rs. 10,000/Assam
2,500/Orissa
Rs. 10,000/Bombay 10,000/- Mysore
Rs. 5,000/Bihar 10,000/Punjab
Rs. 10,000/Delhi
1,000/Rajasthan
Rs. 5,000/Hyderabad
3,000/Saurashtra
Rs. 1,250/Madhya Pradesh
10,000/Travancore Cochin
2,500/Madhya Bharat 10,000/- Uttar Pradesh
10,000/West Bengal
Rs. 10,000/Kerala
Rs. 2,500/
To these have been added grants made by the following Trusts and individual philanthrophists :Sir Dorabji Tata Trust
Rs. 10,000/Seth Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Trust
Rs. 5,000/Seth Narottam Lalbhai Trust
Rs. 5,000/Seth Kasturbhai Lalbhai Trust
Rs. 8,000/Shri Ram Mills, Bombay
Rs. 5,000/Girdhar Lal Chhotalal
Rs. 5,000/Tulsidas Kilachand
Rs. 2,500/Laharchand Lalluchand
Rs. 1,000/Nahalchand Lalluchand
Rs. 1,000/Navjivan Mills
Rs. 1,000/
The Society records its expression of profound gratefulness to all these donors for their generous. grants-in-aid to the Society. The Society's indebtedness to its Chief Patron Dr. Rajendra Prasad has been of the highest value and a constant source of guidance and inspiration in its work.
BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY,
14th September, 1957.
VASUDEVA S. AGRAWALA, DALSUKH MALVANIA,
General Editors
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