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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
The above fiasty notes will, I hopc, induce others io peruse the interesting Sanskrit work which bas been made accessible through the disinterested labours of Mr. Kuppuswami Sastri and liis collaborator, It may be added that the text of (ivulyachintamani is based on six MSS, and is edited and printed in a most scholarly inanner. The rules of division of words and of interpunctuation are as carefully oliserved as in the standard Europeau editions of Sanskrit books--- point which adds greatly to the usefulness of the new work and recommends it for adoption as a text-book for University examinations. Mr. Kuppuswami Sastri is now editing anotlier unpublished prose work Viranarayanacharita of Vámanabhattalana.
(Sd.) E. HULTZSC.4. Camp), u february, 1903.
THE INDIAN REVIEW, MADRAS: GADYACHINTAMANI of Vadhibbasimha in Devanagari, Edited by T. S. Kuppuswami Sastri and S. Subrahmanya Sastri of Tanjore (G. A. Natosan and Co., Madras).
This is a rare work in Sanskrit prose which now appears for the first time in print. Its author is one Vadhibhasimha, who belonged to the Jaina sect. His original name was Odayadeva, il word commonly met with in the nomenclature of Southern India. His erudition and literary fame brougut him the appellation of " the vanquisher of opponents, as a lion of eleplants." The Editor's, in a well-written preface, fix bis date to be subsequent to 650 A. D.
The story itself is very simple. It tells us of a king Satyamdhara who transferred the burden of his state to his scheming minister, and lived with his queen in retirement without bestowing a thought on Jiis subjects. The minister usurps the kingdom, the king dies, and the queen, after giving birth to il son nained Jivamdhara, follows her husband to heaven, The boy is bred up by a merchant and educated, and is also informed as to the details of his birth and position. His wrathi
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