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RECENT PUBLICATIONS edition is based mainly upon a manuscript (S) belonging to the Santinath bhandar in Cambay of which several leaves are inissing. Although he has been able to fill in most of the gaps with thic lielp of other manuscripts, parts of the commentary are still missing. Manuscript S contains both text and commentary together but Muni Jambuvijaya gives first the texts (pp. 1 7,9.12) and then the commentaries (pp. 13 -38, 39-52). In the appendices he gives extracts of works by later Jain authors dealing with strinirvana and kevalibhukii (pp. 58 84, 85 100). These abstracts will be very welcome for those who want to study the history of both questions in medieval Jinisin. Dvadasaram Nayacakram of Acarya Sri Mallavadi Ksamasraniana. With the commentary Nyayayamanusurini of Sri Simbusuri Canividi Ksamastamana. Pare 11 15 8 Aras). Idited with critical notes by Muni Jumbuvijayaji (- Sri Atmanand Jain Granthamala Scrial No. 94). Bhavbnagar, Sri Jain Atmanand Subha, 1976. 23 + 377-744 pp. Rs. 40.00. In 1966 Muni Jambuvijayaji published the first four ara-s of the Nayucakra (cf. 11J, 13, 144 - 150). The second volume contains ara-s 5.-8. In the review of the first volume the importance of this edition has been pointed out. In ara-s 5-8 there are many interesting discussions of linguistic problems, Vaiscsika doctrines and the Buddhist theory of apohu as developed by Dignaga. A long section of this second volume (pp. 606 - 735) is devoted to a refutation of Dignuga's apoha theory. In the notes the editor gives long extracts froni Dignaga's Prumanasamuccayavrtti and Jinendrabuddhi's rika which he has translated from Tibetan into Sanskrit. Of special interest in this second volume are also quotations from old Vaiscsika texts and the discussions of the doctrines of Bhartrhari and his teacher Vasurata. Muni Jambuvijayaji gives a detailed table of contents (pp. 18-21) and a list of schools, Icachers, works and authors (p. 21) which will be helpful to the reader in tinding his way in the Nayacakra and its commentary. The third and final volume of this edition is at present being printed. Once completed, this edition of the Nayacakra and the Nyayagamanusarini will be of fundamental importance for : the study of Indian philosophical and linguistic doctrines in the first half of the first millenium of our cra.