Geet Vitrag prabandh

Author(s): A N Upadhye
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith

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गीतवीतरागप्रबन्धः
urged Dr. Upadhye to bring out an edition of it without waiting any more for the discovery of a Sanskrit Comme ntary. Here it is now with an exhaustive Introduction so usual with his editions. The date of the author is more precisely fixed; and the detailed analysis of the contents given by him is very helpíul to understand this Prabandha.
The Gita-Vitarága is a worthy addition to the Mánikachandra D. J. Granthamālā in which the late Pt. Nathuram Premi brought to light so many unpublished works.
We are grateful to Shriman Shanti Prasadaji Jain and to his enlightened wife Smt. Ramaji for so generously patronising this Granthamala. It is both an opportunity and a challenge to all earnest workers in the field of Jaina literature. Many small and big works in Sanskrit, Prakrit and Apabhraísa still lie neglected in Jaina Bhaodáras; and we earnestly appeal to our scholars to edit them and present them in a neat form : this is a duty which we owe to our Acăryas who have left for us a great heritage in our literature.
I thank Dr. A. N. Upadhye for giving us a neat edition of the Gita-Vitarága which really enriches this Series.
It will give me immense pleasure if at least some of these songs are set to music and go on record for the benefit of the faithful listeners. To be an expert in music is rare : but desire for music is universal.
Balaghat : 10th July, 1972
-H. L. Jain