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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
www.kobatirth.orgAcharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
also remember with gratitude the labonrs of the Russian and French travellers-Petroffsky and Dutreuil de Rhins-who had discovered the fragments of the Kbaroşthi Manuscript and taken them to Europe. It is to Serge d'Oldenbourg that we owe the adjustment of a few fragments of the few rerses, incorporated in M. Senart's Plate marked B.
In order to facilitate comparison, we have felt it necessary to reproduce in Part I of our work M. Senart's edition with his valuable notes translated into English. His parallel quotations have been omitted in Part I, but reproduced in Part II, marked with a t. The few alphabetical types used by him in paleographic discussion had to be omitted in our translation for the simple reason that they would be quite out of place without the fac-simile of the plates. So much abont the reproduction of his work. Our part in the work consists in a radical sbufing and re-arrangement of his plates, fragments and, in some cases, verse lines, consistently with the colophons indicating the total number of verses contained in a group, with the result that the whole work has been divided into so many distinct chapters. No fragment has been left unadjusted and no verse left incomplete, although there are one or two doubtful cases. Numerous new identifications and parallels have been supplied from all possible sources corroborating our adjustments and readiugs. The verses bave been commented on by notes explaising their position in a chapter, and bringing out their literary, linguistic and historical significance. Part III contains the text as adjusted and restored in Part II, with translation. Part IV contains a short dissertation on the genesis, development and historical importance of the Dhamma. pada class of texts, while in Part V an attempt has been made to construct a comparative grammar of the language of the Prakrit text and that of the Kharoşth inscriptions and documents. In the Introduction will be found an account of the various reconsions of the Dhammapada with special reference to their history, place and significance in Buddhism, wbile the
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