Ratnakaravatarika

Author(s): Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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PREFACE
We bring out, with great pleasure, the publication of the first part of Ratnaprabha Sūri's Ratnākarāvatärikā, a commentary on Vadi Devasûri's (A.D. 1000-1109) Pramāṇanayatattväloka with the two-Sankrit super-comm. entaries and Gujarati translation. Here appears, for the first time, Gujarati translation of Ratnākaravatärikā; it is prepared by Muni Shri Malaya. vijayaji. As the text is very tough, the translation will be very helpful to the students of Indian logic in general and Jaina logic in particular,
Pramāṇanayatattväloka can safely be judged as a source-book of Indian Logic, though it primarily deals with Jaina Logic that was fully developed in the twelith century. It discusses all the important topics of Indian logic of that period. Vādi Devasūri, the author, enhanced the utility of the work by writing an auto-commentary on the same named Syadvádaratnakars. This auto-commentary, as its name suggests, is like an ocean in depth and extent. The author's pupil Ratnaprabha, therefore, composed a brief and elucidatory commentary, Ratnākarävatárikå, on it. This, in turn, is also commented upon to make the points more clear.
We are grateful to Juni Shri Malayavija yaji for Gujarati translation. We ackno:vledge our indebtedness to Late Pt. Haragovindas and Pt. Bechardas whose excellent edition of Ratnākarávatårika is used by us as a model text (adarśa prati). Our thanks are also due to the Publishers of the Yashovijaya Granthamala Varanasi as we have utilised their two cditions of Ratnakarāvatārika one giving the complete text' of Ratnakaravatārika and the other giving, only the two chapters with Pañjika and Tippaņa. L. D. Institute of Indology Ahmedabad-9
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