Book Title: In Search of the Original Ardhamagadhi English Translation
Author(s): K R Chandra, N M Kansara, Nagin J Shah, Ramniklal M Shah
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad
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Contents
Pages
Preface Foreword by Prof. Paul Dundas Author's Note Foreword to the Original Hindi Edition by Pt.Dalsukh Malvania Abbreviations & Reference Works
CHAPTERS
1 - 26
27 - 46
47 - 58
59 - 70
1. The State of Ardhamāgadhī in Various Editions
of the Jaina Canonical (Āgamic) Texts 2. Archaic Linguistic Elements in the
Ardhamāgadhī 3. The Antiquity of the Ardhamāgadhī
Āgama Texts and the Place of their
Composition 4. The Ardhamāgadhi Language of the Prakrit
Grammar of Hemacandra 5. The Original Ardhamāgadhī Form of the Word
Ksetrajña 6. The Textual Reading of the Opening Sentence,
the Upodghāta, of the Ācārānga 7. Reconstruction of the Original Ardhamāgadhi:
An Endeavour Principal Characteristics of Archaic or Original Ardhamāgadhi Appendix Reviews And Opinions on the ĀCĀRĀNGA Linguistically Re-edited
71 -78
79 -83
84 - 90
91 -95
97 -118
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