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INTRODUCTION
1) CRITICAL APPARATUS
Tho Birous-Arrvekthi of Svami Kumāra, or 4 it is generally known, the Kärttikeycineprekşa', is indeod a popular work from which Jivina kyinen end monks have drawn their religiouz inspiration; and consequently, so many manuscripts of this text, with or without the Sanskrit commentary of Subh: candra, are reported from various M88. -collections: many more must be lying in other collections of which proper catalogues are not prepared as yet.
The Mes. of K.qxmmpyrekodi are found in the Bhindarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona; in the Jaina Siddhantil Bhuda, Arrilı; in the Ailaka Paonālala Sarasvati Bhavan and Candrapralsh Juina Mandir, Bhulegvara, Bombay; in the Temples at Kuans at Amesa in Rajasthan; at Moodubidri in South Kanaru; in the Lakshunīvena Bhattaraka's Mathat at Kolhapur; in the Jaipa Gurukula at Bähulvali (Koilarar); in the Blattiraka's Matha at Sravana Belgol (Mysore); and in the Jaime teinpley at Lucknow. Those at Bahubali und Mordabidri ale on palm-leaf and written in Old-Kannada characters and those at Sravana Belgola in Grantha characters. Most of the other Mss. ute on paper tudin Devanaguri characters.
The information noted above is gleaned from varions Reports clc. Most of the Mss. from Poona, Bahubali and Kolhapur 1 have personally
1) Edited by PANNALAL BAKALIVAL, Prakrit Text, Sanskrit Claya and Jufacundra's Hindi Com. Jaina Grantha Ratnakar Kargilag, Buinlay 1904; Another ed., without the Sanskrit Chăşi, published lay Bhuratiya Jain Silchaut Prakasini S.rathi Calzulta 1920; Text, Hiodi Apvayārtha by MAUENPRAKTMARA JAS, Baroth (Rajasthaun) 1950.
2) FI. D. VELANKAR: Jinaratna-Kort, Poona 1944: LESLAL: Cottrelugar of Samaril and Prakrit dfas, in C. P. Berier, Nagpur 1926. K. KASALIVAT, orz Băstra Bladura, Jayapura ki Grantha-sūci, Japapur 1949; als) Rajasthānutki Jasira Šāstra bhandarüki Gramharica, part ii, Jayapur 1954; K. BAUJABALI SHASTRI: h'ammin-printiye Tudaputriun Granthanci, Balbras 1948. I have used private lista for the M89. at Kolhapur, Bahubali and Belgol.
