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Muni Manavijayaji has published an edition of the Oghaniryukti with the commentary of Dronācārya (Surat, 1957). It is virtually a reprint of the edition of the Agamodaya Samiti (Méhsana, V. S. 1975) which is not available for the last many years; but it has been freshly collated with five manuscripts.
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The edition of the Niśitha Sútra with its Niryukti, Bhāṣya and Cūrņi at the hands of Upadhyaya Amara Muni and Muni Sri Kanaiyālālji (Sanmati Jñānapitha, Agra, Vol. I-II, 1957; Vol. III, 1958; Vol. IV to be published very shortly) is notable in the study and publication of Cheda Sutras, which were generally kept secret, after Dr. Schubring's edition of the Mahāniśitha and the six-volume edition of the Brhat Kalpa Sūtra (with Kṣemakirti's commentary) by Muni Chaturavijayaji and Muni Punyavijayaji. A cyclostyled edition of the Niśîtha Curņi in five volumes was prepared by Vijaya Premasuri (1939- - 40) for private circulation, and I had an opportunity to use it för my researches in the Canonical literature. But it is for the first time that this bulky Cheda text, equally useful for the history and development of Jaina Church as well as for the study of social conditions in ancient India, is printed. The editors have utilised three comparatively late paper-manuscripts of the Bombay Government collection deposited at the Bhandar'kar Institute, Poona, and the cyclostyled edition. It is surprising that they could not utilize a single palm-leaf manuscript of this ancient text.,, They themselves have mentioned in the Hindi Introduction to the first volume (p. 6)—” gaat teat आवश्यक है कि यदि यह सम्पादनकार्य गुजरात या महाराष्ट्र प्रदेश के अहमदाबाद तथा पूना आदि नगरों में होता तो बहुत अच्छा होता। क्यों कि वहां ज्ञान भण्डारों में प्राचीन प्रतियों . का संग्रह विपुल मात्रा में मिल जाता है। इधर उत्तर प्रदेश आदि में इस प्रकार का प्राचीन daft". The editors have not cared to note a single variant of any of the manuscripts they have utilised. Any way, it is good on the whole that such an important text with exhaustive indices and nicely printed has become available to the students of Indology. The best feature of this edition is the studied Hindi Introduction by Mr. Dalsukh Malvania, which
