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Pravacanasāra
taries. I am highly obliged to the authorities of the Rāyachandra Jaina Sāstramālā, especially to Shetha MANILAL REVASHANKAR JHAVERI, without whose munificent encouragement my studies about Kundakunda would never have seen the light of day. To Prof. HIRALAL JAINA, King Edward College, Amraoti, my thanks are due for his valuable suggestions and corrections in proofs from time to time. I am thankful to my colleagues Prof. K. G. KUNDANGAR and Prof. S. S. SUKTHANKAR for their kind advice at the various stages of the work. Then I must say that the Nirnayasāgara Press has done its work in a satisfactory manner befitting its long standing reputation.
The plan of this essay was formed and many references too collected under the inspiring roof of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, in 1930, when I had the happy opportunity of attending the learned lectures of those two great Sanskritists: Dr. S. K. BELVALKAR and Dr. V. S. SUKTHANKAR on Atharva-veda-andUpanisads and Comparative Philology respectively; and what I owe
them by way of inspiration and instruction is beyond formal expression.
Lastly, I record my deep debt of sincere gratitude to my revered Ācārya Dr. P. L. VAIDYA, Poona, at whose worthy hands I had the proud privilege of being initiated in the field of Prakrit studies. He has always encouraged me to work and to work better and along better lines. The training that I have received from him has always stood me in good stead.
The editor acknowledges his indebtedness to the University of Bombay, for the substantial financial help it has granted towards the cost of the publication of this book.
With all its imperfections, of which, I might be allowed to
I am better aware than any one else, I am placing this work of mine in the hands of Orientalists. I hope that this humble contribution of mine to the study of Kundakunda might be of help, howsoever little, to scholars working in the field of Jaina literature which is still an unexplored field awaiting expert and extensive spadework.
karmanyevadhikaras te: Kolhapur: 2
A. N. UPADHYE August, 1935.
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