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just 200 years ago from now, was published Henry Thomas Colebrooke's: "Observations on the Sects of Jainas" (later on printed in Colebrooke's Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. II, 1872, 2nd edn. pp. 191-224). The Journal of the Asiatic Society has also published many outstanding pioneering articles on Prakrit and Jainism. In 1880 the unique Prakrit grammar of Canda's Prākṛta-lakṣaṇam edited by A.F.R. Hoernle (1841-1918) from six or eight manuscripts was published for the first time. It was immediately followed by Hoernle's edition of a Jaina Anga text, Upāsakadasāsūtra in two volms (text 1885-1890 and translation 1888 reprinted in 1989 by the Society). These two editions are still outstanding works in the field of Prakrit. The Parisiṣṭa-parvan or Sthavirāvali-carita of Hemacandra (1088-1172 A.D.), the appendix to the Triṣastisalākā-puruṣa-carit(r)a, was edited by Hermann Jacobi (1850-1937) under the Bibliotheca Indica Series in 1891 (extracts translated into German by J. Hertel in his Erzählungen aus Hemacandra's Parisiṣṭaparvan, Leipzig, 1900). Another "religious novel" (Dharmakathā) is Haribhadra Sūri's (705-775 A.D.) Samarāiccakahā which is again edited by Jacobi under the Bibliotheca Indica Series (1908) but published in 1916 with text and introduction which contains a detailed table of contents of the text. Another religious novel in allegorical Sanskrit is Upamiti-bhava-prapañca-kathā of Siddharși (906 A.D.) which is also edited by Jacobi under Bibliotheca Indica Series between 1890 and 1914. The famous book of Umäsvāti/Umāsvāmī (3rd/5th cent. A.D. or acc. to Digambara 135-219 A.D.) is Tattvārthādhigamasutra which is also published in the Bibliotheca Indica Series under the editorship of Keshavlal Premchand Mody between 1903-1905, together with a few minor works of Umāsvāti/ Umāsvāmi in the appendices.
One of the rarest texts and at the same time very important for Prakrit metres is Prākṛta-pingalam of Pingala which is edited by Chandra Mohana Ghosha with the four commentaries of Viswanātha-Pañcānana, Vansidhara, and Krishna and Yadavendra with a complete index and glossary of all Prakrit words in the text and was published by the Asiatic Society between the years 1900 and 1902
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