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tures on modern critical lines have been made by scholars like Jacobi, Leumann, Schubring, Hoernle, Barnett, Charpentier and others. It is a matter of regret that the Jain Canon has not received the same critical attention which the Buddhist canon has received. Just like the Pali Text Society, there must come into being a body of scholars who would publish the whole Jain Canon in the form of a series using all available old materials, on duly chalked out lines. All the editions of stray scriptures, it must be pointed out, are merely tentative editions. Prof. Barnett1 has rightly observed about his text of Anuttarovavaiya-Daşão, "The Prakrit text of the Anutta rovavai which is here presented can make no claim to critical exactness. It aims merely at presenting the vulgate, inore or less faithfully, with the ordinary blunders corrected.” Unless an organised attempt is made to edit the whole of the Jain canon in the form of a series, on modern critical lines, we shall not have that long-felt desideratum of the critical texts of the Jain Canon fulfilled.
§ 2 My edition of the two stray scriptures. of the Jain Canon can not naturally go beyond a tentative effort to supply a good text, as it will be shown later under this very section that the difficulties about settling the spellings of some
1. Barnett. Ant. & Anu. Trans. P. 123.
