Critical Introduction to Panhavagara

Author(s): Amulyachandra Sen
Publisher: Amulyachandra Sen

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vipula, vedako, viracita, adhamma, udadhı etc This latter feature occuis on every page and it is noticeable that many of such words are found in their Prakıt form when quoted by Abh This Sanskriticism occurs in varying degrees in the other cditions also, but in A are to be found the largest number of instances of this tendency
The page-numbers in connection with all quotations given in the following pages refer to this edition
B Text published together with Abhayadeva's commentary by Dhanapati Sinha, Calcutta, samvat 1933, uncritical and with many mistakes
C Ms No Onent Fol 1029 in the State Library, Berlin, text only, almost identical in reading with A
D Ms No Orient Fol 657 in the State Library Berlin, text only, very much like C, but has more mistakes
E Ms No Onent Fol 677 in the State Library, Berlin, text and commentary, clumsily written and full of mistakes some of which have later been corrected on the margin
F Text published with a Hindi gloss by Raja Bahadur LSJ Jaumhari, Hyderabad, Deccan, Virabda 2445, uncritical and with many mistakes The vernacular gloss paraphrases and summarises Abh 's commentary and offers nothing new
The Panhāvágaranáim is the tenth among the eleven Anga texts of the Jaina Canon An examination of its contents was made by Weber) Since that time this text has received but little attention Schubring made some references to it in his critical essay on the chronology of the Canon, entitled "Der Kanon der Jainas' 2) In Winternitz's History of Indian Literature) as well as in Schubring's recent publication Die Lehre der Jainas, p 66, the earlier critical estimate on this text has been reviewed Apart from these, this text has found only casual mention from wnters on Jainism who had to give some account of the Jaina texts in general
1) Ind Stud XVI, pp 326-335 2) This forms the introduction to his Worte Ma häviras 3) Vol II P 452