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RECENT PUBLICATIONS 217 in the santinath bhandar and must therefore have been written about the same time by the same scribe. Belloni-Filippi's oldest manuscript was written in Vikr. 1260 and belongs to the Deccan College. In his notes Muni Jambuvijaya gives the readings of the manuscripts used by him and variants of the two printed editions. Hemacandra quotes often from his Trisastisalakapurusacaritra and from many other works written by himself and other authors such as Haribhadrasuri. Muni Jambuvijaya has tried to identify his sources as far as possible. His careful edition of this important work will be extremely useful. It is to be hoped that it will prompt a scholar to undertake a translation. Williams remarked: "In view of its very full picture of the life of a layman in twelfth-century Gujarat, it is unfortunate that no translation of the work in a western language exists." Belloni-Filippi's translation does not go beyond the first five verses and their commentary and Windisch's translation of the first four prakasa-s suffers from the fact that he had not been able to use the commentary.? 1 Ernst Windisch, 'Hemacandra's Yogasastra. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Jaina-Lehre', ZDMG, 28 (1874), 185-262. 2 Ferdinando Belloni-Filippi, 'La "Yogacastravitti", GSAI, 21 (1908), 123-222; 22(1909), 113-154; 23 (1910), 171-208; 26 (1913-14), 97-131. 3 Belloni-Filippi mentions an edition by Hiralal (Bombay, 1899) which he had been unable to obtain. * For manuscripts of the Yogasastra and the vrtti see H. D. Velankar, Jinaratnakosa (Poona, 1944), pp. 323-324. 5 R. Williams, Jaina Yoga (London, 1963), p. 12. On the Yogasastra see further M. Winternitz, A History of Indian Literature, vol. II (Calcutta, 1933), pp. 567-570. GSAI, 21 (1908), 142-213. :? Cf. Belloni-Filippi, GSAI, 21 (1908), 135-137. Ayaramgasuttar (Acarargasutram], edited by Muni Jambuvijaya (Jaina-Agama-Series, no. 2(I)). Bombay, Sri Mahavira Jaina Vidyalaya, 1977.89 + 422 pp. Rs. 40.00. This new edition of the Jain agama-s was planned by Sri Punyavijayaji (1895-1971). The first volume (Nandisutta and Anuogadara) was published in 1968, volume four part 1 (Viyahapannatti, saya 1 --9) in 1974 and volume 9, parts 1 and 2 (Pannavana) in 1969 and 1971.1 Muni Jambuvijaya's edition of the Ayarangasutta is based upon six palm-leaf manuscripts and eight paper manuscripts (cf. pp. 66-67). The information given on these manuscripts in the Sanskrit and the English forewords is very brief (pp. 59-60, 66-67). Muni Jambuvijaya has added a long introduction in Gujarati (pp. 15-55) of which I have been unable to make any use. In 1910 Walther Schubring edited the first srutaskandha. In 1924 he wrote: "vom Ayara ist der Schreiber dieser Zeilen, nachdem er den wichtigsten Teil vorgelegt, die zweite Halfte wenigstens der Offentlichkeit noch schuldig."2 Alas, Schubring's edition of the second srutaskandha was never published. Muni Jambuvijaya writes that in preparing this critical edition he consulted old manuscripts of such works as the Acarangacurni, the Acarangavrtti and the Nisithacurni. R manuscripts were collected by Sri Punyavija yaji. The editor has added several appendices (word index, pp. 299-389; passages abridged by java or by numerals,-pp. 390-395; identical or partly identical sutras, pp. 396-398; sloka index, pp. 399.400; comparison of passages of the Acarargasutta with similar passages in Vedic and Buddhist works, pp. 401-412). Addenda and corrigenda are given on pp. 413-416 and readings of manuscript samdi on pp. 416-422. This manuscript was obtained by the editor when the text had already been printed. For this reason readings found in it and not already mentioned in the notes are listed here. Muni Jambuvijaya's edition of the Acarangasutta is based upon more manuscript materials