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4. Manusorfpts
The present cdition of the Nyāyapraves'a and its Viti and the Panjikā of the Vrtti has been based upon the following four manuscripts of which the first three were placed at my disposal by the Baroda State and the last was supplied by my learned and esteemed friend Jaina Ācārya S'ri Vijaya-Nemisdriji of Ahmedabad :
1. 1983Tsh text-fol. 2, original from Hemacandrācārya
Jain Sabhā, Pātaņ. A photostat copy of this is preserved
in the Library of the Oriental Institute, Baroda. 2. P asak (1) fol. 16, original in the Oriental Institute,
No. 2844. (2) Second copy, fol. 6, preserved in the Jaina Jnāna-Mapdira,
Pravartaka S'ri Kántivijayaji S'ās'trasamgraha, Baroda. 3. Predargleras 1(1) palm-leaf old and dilapidated, fol. 119
minus 1,4,62-64, 67,70, and 90, obtained from Khetarväsi Jain Bhandar, Pātan. A photostat copy of this is also preserved in the Library of the Oriental Institute, Baroda. (2) Second copy with folia 19, 20, 22-24 only obtained
from the library of the late Mr. T. M. Tripathi of Nadiad. 4. reyder met with gret, & new copy on paper, fol. 14
with 15 lines to a page, supplied to me by Acarya
S'ri Vijaya-Nemi-Sariji of Ahmedabad from his Bhandér. 5. Thanks and Apologies I must apologize to the reader for the numerous misprints that have escaped my notice owing to hurried proofreading. Instead of making a separate list of Errata, big and small, I have corrected all the important misprints at their proper place in the Notegma an arrangement which I venture to think will be found more serviceable than the usual one of putting up a list at the end of a book. There is one correction, however, which I should specially mention. When the first few formes of this work beginning with the text of the Nyāyapraves'a, which were first printed at Baroda, were reprinted at the Bombay Vaibhava Prego In order to secure uniformity of print and paper--for which I am specially indebted to Dr. Binoytosa Bhattacharya, the General Editor of the G. O. S.-I seized the opportunity for correoting an important passage on P. 4 U 1077 relating to the Hetvábhisa "Manger
