Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

Author(s): Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya Mumbai
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay

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Preface
SHRI Mahavira Jaina Vidyalaya, Bombay, is celebrating its Golden
Jubilee; and in that context this Volume is published by its authorities. During the last fifty years, this Vidyalaya has bestowed immense benefit on its inmates for their education as well as socio-moral welfare. It runs a number of Vidyarthigrihas in some of the important towns of Western India, and its inmates, rich and poor, are being looked after for all these years. Their number is pretty large. Many of them have creditably settled down in their life after successfully completing their academic career, especially in the fields of higher education.
In addition to the legitimate activities of the Vidyalaya, the authorities have also devoted their attention to the publication of important works of Jaina literature which happens to be a neglected branch of Indian learning. This Institution has among its objects the researches in and publication of Jaina literature. It is well known that the Ardhamāgadhi canon with its commentaries in Prākrit and Sanskrit is an important branch of early Indian literature; and it contains a vast amount of literary and cultural material, so far not fully studied and absorbed in the progress of Indic studies. This Vidyalaya has undertaken a critical edition of the canon; and this work is going ahead under the benign guidance of Muni Shri PUNYAVIJAYAJI in whom we have a pious saint and a scholar of great repute who has devoted his entire life to the cause of piety and learning. With the cooperation of Pandit Dalsukhbhai Malvania and a number of scholars this project is progressing well. The entire series of the Ardhamāgadhi canon would be printed on specially made paper containing extra rag contents for longer durability with library binding. In this series the