Mahavira and his Teaching

Author(s): C C Shah, Rishabhdas Ranka, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: Bhagwan Mahavir 2500th Nirvan Mahotsava Samiti

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KĀVILIYAM: A METRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EIGHTH
CHAPTER OF THE UTTARĀDHYAYANA-SŪTRA
K. R. Norman Cambridge (U.K.)
1. INTRODUCTION nad 2 The eighth chapter of the Utlarādhyayana-sūtra, entitled Kāvilī yam "Kapila's verses”, is one of only three chapters of the whole Jain canon written (except for verse 17, which is a śloka) in the old āryā metre. A critical edition of Ā yāramga I, 9 was made by Schubring (Acārānga-sūtra, Leipzig, 1910), and one of Suyagadamga I, 4 by Alsdorf (Indo-Iranian Journal, Vol. II, 1958, 4, 249-70). This paper aims at revising and analysing the text of Uttarādhyayanasutra 8.
No MSS were directly available to me for the production of a critical edition, but I have made use of the following printed editions:
C=Charpentier's edition (Uppsala, 1922). V=the edition by Vadekar and Vaidya (Poona, 1954). This
is a corrected version of C, with some better readings taken
from Devendra's commentary. S=Suttīgame, Vol. II, the Sthānakvāsí edition by Muni
Srí Phūlchandjī Mahārāj (Gurgaon, 1954). N=Uttarādhyayāni śrīmān-Nemicandrācāryaviracitasukhabodhānāmya
vrttyā samalankęlāni (Valad, 1937). This edition tends to print intervocalic -t-, but this idiosyncracy is ignored in
the Critical Apparatus below.
J- Jacobi's edition (Ahmedabad, 1911). Šāntisūri's commentary was not available to me, but I have noted such of his readings as are quoted in the notes to C.
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