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Nyayapraveśakaśāstra
Three mss. of the Pañjikā written on the palm-leaves are also available at:1. Shantinath palm-leaves bhandāra, Khambat 2. Jinabhadrasuri, jñāna bhandāra, Jaisalmer 3. Khetarvasahi Pada jñāna bhandara, Patan
Some time back many mss. were stolen from the store of Khetarvasahi Pada, Patan. Therefore, the original mss. is not available there at present. But its photocopy is available in the Oriental Institute Library, Baroda. This copy was utilized by Shri Anandshankar Bapubhai Dhruva. In this copy there are 119 folios. Out of these folio nos. 1, 4, 62, 63, 64, 67, 70 and 90 were not available to even Shri Anandshankar Bapubhai Dhruva. After completion of the Pañjikā by us, an original resident of Kacch-Mandavi, Shri Navinchandra Nanalal Shah, who handles an important job in the Baroda University, met us. We talked to him and he immediately sent us a photocopy of the same. We are very grateful to him for this.
After printing of the complete Pañjikā text, another edition of the Nyāyapraveśakavrtti has come to my notice recently which has been published and printed by the Higher Tibet Education Institute, Sarnath (Varanasi) in 1986 in the Bhota Bharatiya Granthamala-6 series. Prof. Sempa Dorje has translated and edited both these works into Tibetan language and published it in the Bhota script along with an exhaustive introduction comprising 136 pages.
Keeping in mind both the Nyāyapraveśakaśāstra, published by the Oriental Institute, Baroda in 1930 and the Nyāyapraveśakavytti, Prof. Sempa Dorje has himself translated this in the Bhota language. Therefore, there can be some textual variations in the version of the Nyāyapraveśakaśāstra, and the Nyāyapraveśakavịtti.
For clarity, the improvised part of the text has been given in round brackets and the extended parts in square brackets. At many places in the copies we have mentioned for the original and for revisions, certain symbols, which are there in the notes.
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