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Niyamasāra
नियमसार
how many hand-written manuscripts of this scripture would have been created in the last two millennia. Even now, we have no data on the number of palm-leaf manuscripts preserved in various mutts, temples and private libraries. A monograph on Acarya Kundakunda by Mahavir Granth Academy, Jaipur (Publication no.10, 1990) in Hindi has annexed a list of hand-written copies of Ācārya's scriptures preserved in north India. It provides details of 5 copies of ‘Niyamasāra', the oldest being written in the year 1735 A.D. preserved at the Jain Mandir of Ajmer. Such a survey is required to discover old Manipravala and Kannada commentaries kept in palm-leaf manuscripts in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. It is learnt that the Kannada tīkā was written by Balachandra. The translations of 'Niyamasāra' with commentary are available in many Indian languages, including Marathi, Tamil and Gujarati. It is a good practice to recount the publication efforts of this āgama in recent times. The following is the bibliography of the said literature:
1. In VS 1972, Brah. Sital Prasad jī was the first to come out with
a Hindi translation called Bālabodha and this was published by Sri Jain Granth Ratnakar Publication. An abridged English version by Uggar Sain was published by Bharatiya Jnanpith,
Delhi (2006). 2. Jain Svadhyay Mandir, Songadh (Gujarat) in Gujarati by
Himmat Lal Jetha Lal Shah, in VS 2007, and Hindi by Magan
Lal Jain and Jugal Kishor, Sahityaratna, in VS 2018. 3. Kundkund Bharti's Hindi version. 4. Pannalal Sāhityācārya, 1931, Hindi version but published in
2010 as venerable Acāryasri Vidyasagar Samyam Svarņa
Jayanti Publication no. 3. (2017) by Jain Vidyapeeth, Sagar. 5. A new Sanskrit commentary by name Syādvāda Candrikā by
Gaņini Aryikāratna Gyanmati Mātājī, published by Digambara
Jain Trilok Shodh Samsthan, Hastinapur (U.P), (2005). 6. Manohar Varnīji's pravacana. 7. Kanji Svami's pravacana. 8. Acārya Gyansagar ji and Acārya Vidyasagar ji padyānuvāda. 9. Tamil version by Śrī Višākācārya Taponilayam, Kundakunda
Nagar, T.N.
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