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PREFACE
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 Nirņayasāgara 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 Atharvaveda-and-Upanisads and Comparative Philology respectively; and what I owe to 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 say, 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 litt to scholars working in the field of Jaina literature which is still_ unexplored field awaiting expert and extensive spade-work.
karmanyevādhikūras te: Kolhapur: 2 August, 1935.)
A, N. UPADHYE, &
