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tied in a bundle. There is a Sanskrit commentary and some variant readings in footnotes.
(c) HYDERABAD SERIES:-AMg. Texts with a Hindi translation prepared by a Jain priest, Śrī Amolak Rikhi; printed at the expense of a rich Jain patron, Hyderabad (Deccan ) 19191920, in MS. form, and distributed free to Sadhus and libraries. The text is not free from errors.
Besides these, of which the second series is much the best for students of the language, there are various editions of the more popular works such as the Kappa, Uttarajjhayana, Dasaveyaliya, etc.
In Section 3 above have been enumerated seven texts published by European scholars with vocabularies. To these may be added four without vocabularies:
VIII.
Ayārāmga, ed. H.Jacobi, Pali Text Society, 1882.
IX. Anuttarovavaiya, ed. L. D. Barnett, Oriental Translation Fund, Vol. XVII. London 1907 (appendix to Translation of Antagaḍa)
X.
Dasaveyaliya, ed. Leumann in Z. D. M. G., Vol. 46. XI. Uttarajjhyayana ed. Jarl Charpentier, Uppsala, 1922. 5. Translations:
The Gujarati translation of the whole Canon in the Baluchar series and the Hindi translation in the Hyderabad edition have been mentioned above, In English there are Jacobi's in the "Sacred Books of the East" Series, (Vols. XXII, XLV); Hoernle's Uvāsagadasão; and Barnett's Antagaḍadasão and Aņuttarovavāiya. 6. Grammars and Readers:
Ardha-Magadhi (or Arsha) grammar is expounded by the Prakrit grammarians. The most important are those of Hemacandra in India and of Pischel in Europe. A sketch of the grammar, which
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