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I General Remarks
The material used by me for the present study are the following, -
A. Text published together with the commentary of Abhayadeva by the Āgamôdaya Samiti, Bombay 1919, this has been the principal instrument used by me and those others mentioned below have teen used only for purposes of occasional comparisons and references This edition, inspite of the carefulness bestowed on its printing, can by no means be called a crtical edition
It contains a number of mispnnts Its paragraphing is not always systematic and it sometimes joins up separate compounds or separates parts of a compound Often it spells the instrumental plural suffix as "ehim while the metre requires ochi, and the locative plural suffix as 'su where the metre requires 'sum or vice versa It has in ten places in the first five chapters (none in the last five) some words or parts of words inserted into the text within brackets, four of these are attempts to reproduce or note the different reading in the commentary and the other six are various readings unnoticed by Abhayadeva, these latter were perhaps found in Mss consulted in editing A, for two of them occur in B but none in C, D, E
This edition reveals some special features, viz
I a large use of the inorganic t, i e, t substituted in the place of a vowel obtained according to Praknt usage") from a Sansknt consonant other than t, eg hitaya for hiyaya (hrdaya), tajjite for tajjie (taj-jīve), vetiya for veiya (vedıkā), divita for diviya (dvipikā), bititam for bitiyam (dvitiyam), viti for vil (vici) etc. This feature occurs in other Jaina Mss too)
II frequent use of Sanskriticisms, such as, use of n and nn in such words as anna, vānara, vivanna (vivarna), vinivāya (vinipāta), dinna (datta), janna (yajña), punna (punya), padıpunna (pratipůrna) etc, and the retention of intervocal consonants in their Sanskrit form in preference to their Prakntic changes, such as kāka,
1) See Schubring, Die Lehre der Jainas, p 15, where the findings of previous editors of Jaina Mss have been referred to
2) See Steinthal's introduction to Specimen der Nāyādb
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