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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
he is able to present a thoroughly reliable text of the old classics for which the Mss. material is sometimes scanty. His are variorum editions replete with annotations and accessories of all kinds that help in the understanding of the author's meaning.
The other meritorious feature of his editions are the comprehensive learned Intoductions packed with exhaustive information about the author, his life, date and works, and the subjectmatter of the text edited. Herein is reflected the full blazing light of Dr. Upadhye's scholarship, patient research and manysided intellectual equipment. Their contents have some times, as in the case of the Pravacanasāra and the Brhat-Kathākoša, taken the form of dissertations bringing to focus a mass of new material marshalled with competence and clarity.
Dr. Upadhye has upto now edited the following fourteen texts: (1) Pamcasuttam: a Prākrit text by an unknown author,
with extracts from Haribhadra's commentary. (2) Pravacanasāra of Kundakunda: a Prākrit text with two
Sanskrit commentaries. (3) Paramātma-prakāśa of Yogindudeva: an Apabhramsa
work on medieval Jaina mysticism. (4) Varāngacarita of Jatā-Simhanandi: a Sanskrit Kävya
of the 7th century A.D. (5) Kamsavaho of Rāma Pānivāda: a Prākrit poem., (6) Usaniruddham: a Prākrit poem attributed to Rāma
Pāṇivāda. (7) Tiloyapannatti of Yativrsabha, Vols I & II: a Prākrit
text on Jaina cosmography, (8) Brhat-Kathākośa: a thesaurus of 157 tales in Sanskrit,
written in 932 A.D. (9) Dhūrtākhyāna of Haribhadra, a critical essay on: a
Prākrit satire of the 8th century A.D. (10) Candralekha of Rudradāsa: a Prākrit drama. (11) Līlāvai Kahā of Kutūhala: a Prākrit poem (c. 800 A.D). (12) Anandasundarī of Ghanaśyāma: a Prākrit drama. (13) Kattigeyānuppekkhā of Svāmi Kumāra: a Prākrit
treatise on Jainism, with the Sanskrit commentary of Subhacandra (under publication).
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