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EDITOR'S NOTE
The L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad, has great pleasure in publishing a critical edition of "Pragamaratiprakaraņa" by Umāsvāti, together with an authentic English translation, Introduction and detailed critical notes. Dr. Yajneshwar S. Shastri has spared no pains and has edited the text with the utmost care of a scholar. He consulted as many as 15 Mss., palm-leaf, paper and published and with scientific acumen and due sense of discrimination with regard to the value of each one of the Mss. he chose 10 for his editing work. This makes the present work coming into the hands of scholars and interested readers for the first time as a standard critical edition together with an English translation. All aspects-philosophical, ethical, religious of Jainism and the Jaina way of life as propounded by the author are discussed as a great scholar should do, with utmost care and minutest details in the Introduction. Other topics discussed in comparative light are also enlightening.
We are thankful to Dr. Yajneshwar S. Shastri, who worked on the project and gave the present work to the world of scholars through the Institute of which he is Acting Director at present. 16th May, 1989.
R. S. Betai General Editor
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