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court poetry, and they have also produced important works of scholarship" ( A History of Indian Literature, vol. II, p. 483 ).
In Purana-literature the Padmaparaña, describing the story of Ráma, completed hy Acārya Ravişena in V.S. 733, has been edited with Hindi translation by Pt. Pannalal Jain, and the fitst part containing 25 sargas has been published during the period under review (Bharatiya Jñanapitha, Banaras, 1958). Pt. Pannalal has also cdited the Jivandharacampū of Haricandra with a Sanskrit commentary and a Hindi translation (Bharatiya Jñānapitha, Banaras, 1958). The romantic story of Jivandhara is well-known in ancient Indian literature, and it is available in several versions. This ornate campū, first puhlished by T. S. Kuppuswami Shastri in 1905, has been admirably brought out with a learned Introduction from the pen of Dr. A. X. Cpadhye. • The third part of Dhanapāla's famous Katha-work Tilakamasijari has been published with a gloss of Santyācārya and an exhaustive commentary by Lavanyasūri, a prolific modern writer in Sanskrit (Botad, V.S. 2014). Bluni Vikramavijaya has edited Ratnasekhara-Ratnavati Kathanakam of Dayāvardhanagani which, in its turn, is based on an earlier Katha in Prākrit (Chhani, 1957). The same editor, in collaboration with Bluni Bhaskaravijaya, has edited Yuni Suvratasvámicaritam of Vinayacandrasűri (Chhani, 1957). The Jaina authors have written commentaries on numerous Sansksit classics and works of scholarship, and Mr. Agarchand Xahata had given almost an exhaustive list of such commentaries ( Hindi-Gujarati Bharatiya Vidvā, 11. 3. October 1942). Prof. D. D. Kosambi has edited Dhanasäragani's commentary on the three Satakas of Bharthari { Singhi Jaina Series, Bombay, 1959), Mr. Walter Maurer is presently editing a leghaduta-commentary by Sumativijaya, a viriter wibo probably belonged to the 18th century. It would te interesting to nole here that eleven commentaries on Meghaduta by Jaina authors have been recorded by Prof. H. D. Velankar in his Jinaratnakosa.
