Laghuprabandhsangrah

Author(s): Jayant P Thaker
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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EDITOR'S PREFACE
The Laghu-prabandha-sangraha is edited for the first time in the present volume. I have tried to make the edition as critical as was possible. The Introduction, together with the Appendices, comprises a critical study of the text. This study has led me to the following conclusions:
(1)
All the ten prabandhas of this anonymous work are from the pen of one and the same author.
(2) In the case of the prabandhas whose versions are available elsewhere, the version of our text is the oldest one.
This small work is brimming with the peculiar characteristic features of the Prabandha-style and of so-called "Jaina Sanskrit ".
(4) It has considerable bearings on contemporary history. (5) It throws much light on contemporary culture.
(3)
As such, this volume will, in my humble opinion, make a very valuable, important and useful addition to the Prabandha-literature explored so far.
I request the learned readers to make due corrections in the printed matter as per the Corrigenda and humbly seek their indulgance for the same.
I have earnestly endeavoured to utilize the valuable work in the field put forth in the past by learned scholars through patient researches and feel highly indebted to those purva-sūris for the inspiration and help that I could secure from them. A special mention must be made here of my indebtedness to Dr. D. C. Sircar's "Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India" and Dr. A. S. Altekar's paper on "A History of Important Ancient Towns and Cities in Gujarat and Kathiawad (From the Earliest Times down to the Moslem Conquest) published on pp. 1-54 of volumes LIII (1924) and LIV (1925) of the Indian Antiquary, for most of the Geographical data furnished in Appendix B (3).
I feel highly obliged to Dr. D. C. Sircar, the veteran Historian of our land, who was kind enough to reply promptly to a query sent by me regarding king Madanabhrama and the situation of his Capital Kanti.
I also take this opportunity to express my deep sense of gratitude to a number of friends and well-wishers but for whose help-in one way or another