Kavyaprakashkhandan

Author(s): Siddhichandragani
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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PREFACE
While searching for the Mss, of Siddhicaudra's commentary on the Vasuvadatta of Subandhu in the Jána Bhandara of Pannyāsa Saubhagya Vimalji at Ahmedabad, I saw, by chance, a Ms, bearing the title Kavyaprakasakhaṇḍana. Looking through it cursorily, I found that it contained a sort of commentary written with the object of criticizing Kavyaprakasa rather than explaining it. Dr. De, in his Sanskrit Poetics' Vol. I. p. 189 says, "A work called Kavyamṛtaturangini or Kavyaprakasaklanḍana-apparently an adverse critique on Mammața is entered in Mitra 2674." I thought that this was the Ms. of that work though it is nowhere called Kavyamṛtatarangini. When I informed Muni Sri Jinavijayaji, the general editor of the Singh Jaina Granthmala, of this work, he expressed a desire to publish the same in his Sories, if I prepared a critical edition of the work. I searched for more Mas. of the work and got two more from the same Bhaṇḍāra. I have prepared the present edition of K. P. K, with the help of these Mss. and the printed editions of K. P.-particularly that of Jhulkikar (B. O. R. I. 1921).
I express my thanks to the trustees of the Saubhagya Vimal Bhandara for lending me the Mas, and to Acarya Jinavijayaji for accepting it for publication in the S. J. S. and also for various kinds of help in editing this work.
R. C. PARIKH
का. प्र. खं.
ना. द. भा. चं.
र. गं.
सा. द.
B. C.
J. O. R.
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ABBREVIATIONS
(The reference is to pages. Reference to Kārikās und Slokas are preceded by, and .)
. Gaekwar Oriental Series, Baroda, भानुचंद्र चरित, Singhi Jain Granthamala.
i. Nirmaya Sagar Press, Bombay. Third revised edition, 1916.
ada, edited by u.M. Kane, 1923 and 1951. Bhanucandracarita (S. J. S.)
Journal of Oriental Research, Madras.
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