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PrasamaRati
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A very useful bibliography on the author is the following, No. 1 being quite exhaustive and entirely indispensible:
1 Gujarati Introduction (in Devanagari script) to Tattvartha-Sutra, edited by Pt. Sukhlal, 1940, Ahmedabad. 2. English and Sanskrit Introduction to Part I and II, Sri-Tattvarthadhigamasutram, edited by Prof. Hiralal Kapadia, 1926-1930, Surat. 3. English Introduction to Tattvärthadhigamasutram in the Sacred Books of the Jainas Series, edited by J. L. Jaini, 1920. 4. The Section "Umäsväti" in Suami-Samantabhadra in Hindi by Pt. Jugalkishor Mukhatar 1925, Bombay.
Pt. Sukhalal has made a few comments on the present work in the above-mentioned work. A list of the Prasamarati-publications may prove useful. It is as follows:
1. Bibliotheca Indica, Appendix, Calcutta. 2. Ahmedabad, V. S. 1960. 3. with tika-avacuri, Bhavnagar, V. S. 1966. 4. with Gujarati translation and comments, Mehsana, V. S. 1966. 5. with Italian commentary and translation (by A. Ballini), Gironale della societa Asiatica Italiana 25, 1912.
IV. Acknowledgement etc.:-For the critical editing of this work the trustees and myself are indebted to Pujyapād Sri Anandsägar Sūri, a monk well-known among the Jaina community for his deep-rooted knowledge of the Jaina dogmas, and a scholar whose interpretation of some of the
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