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DHURTAKHYANA:
quite an original, thorough, critical and elaborate Essay on the Dhūrtākhyāna which forms a most important and valuable part of this volume. In his learned dissertation, Dr. Upadhye has made a searching study of the different aspects of the Dhurtakhyāna with remarkable penetration and judiciousness. I am not aware of any such substantial contribution on this subject by any other scholar.
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Dr. Upadhye has not, however, discussed in his essay any details about the life, date, and works of Haribhadrasüri; he left them to me. Some twenty-five years back, the date of Haribhadrasuri had become a point for difference of opinion and dispute between European and Indian scholars. After reaching a decision in this matter, in the light of various fresh materials, especially the specific reference in the Kuvalayamala of Uddyotanasūri, I presented to the First All-India Oriental Conference, Poona (1919), an essay Sanskrit, Haribhadracāryasya Samaya-nirnayah' in which I definitely proved that Haribhadra flourished at the close of the 8th century and at the beginning of the 9th century of the Vikrama era. That great German Orientalist, the late lamented Dr. Hermann Jacobi, had discussed this topic thoroughly and with remarkable originality; and he could be looked upon as an authority on the subject. When he read my paper, with typical impartiality he relinquished his earlier view and wholly accepted my conclusion; and that was a great encouragement to me. In the Introduction to his monumental edition of the Samaraiccakaha, published in the Bibliotheca Indica, No. 169, Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1926, he has presented a valuable and learned discussion about the date, life and works of Haribhadrasūri; and therein he has accepted the date of Haribhadra proposed by me and stated the same as an indisputable fact. I am not aware of any other article than this which concisely presents the requisite details about Haribhadra: his date, life and works. The time has not come to add anything specially new; so I thought it proper to give in this Volume the relevant portion of Dr. Jacobi's Introduction of the Samaraiccakaha.
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The following Mss. have been used for the edition of Dhürtakhyāna in Präkrit, Sanskrit and Old-Gujarati.
A = This was procured from the
Frakrit Text Samgha Bhandara of Patan. It contains eight folios, measuring 11 by 4 inches, of thin and strong indigenous paper, and written on both sides. On each page there are 16-17 lines. The hand-writing is clear and beautiful. One inch square unwritten space is left in the centre of the page. A print of the halftone block of the last page of it is given herewith.
B =
This also belongs to the Samgha Bhanḍāra at Patan. It contains 11 folios measuring 103 by 43 inches, with 15-16 lines on each page; and its general condition is the same as that of Ms. A.
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