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added to the value obtained to make it conform to 975, the Hijra year in which Chitor was conquered (p. 17 f.n. 3). The fact is that the date intended to be given in the chronogram is not 975 as both Lowe and Shri Tirmizi have taken for granted, but only 974, actually afforded by the chronogram. It has escaped Shri Tirmizi's notice that the chronogram is not for the conquest of Chitor but for the manufacture of the cannon for the Chitor expedition, as is clear from his own translation : 'made, without doubt, for the conquest of Chittor, a mortar...' (p. 17).
We have indicated above some of the mistakes in the hope that these will be corrected in the next edition.
The printing and get up of the book are fairly good, but the price is perhaps a little on the high side, as the blocks were made available free of cost. Nevertheless, the author and the publishers have rendered valuable services to the cause of epigraphical research.
Z. A. Desai
Dvādaśaram Nayacakram of Ācārya Śri Mallavādi Kşamāśramaņa with the commentary Nyāyāgamānusāriņi of Sri Simhasűri Gaņi Vādi Kşamāśramaņa Part I ( 1-3 Aras ) : Edited with critical notes by Muni Sri Jambūvijayaji and published by Sri Jaina Ātmānanda Sabhā-Bhavnagar. Price: Rs. 25/-.
The name of Muni Sri Jambūvijayaji is by this time very well known in the realm of the oriental scholars by his editing of Vaiseșika Sūtravștti with the commentary of Candrānanda. One can easily see his critical faculty and scientific methods of critically editing the text. It surpasses in many ways even the method of Western scholars who are the masters of scientific ways of critically editing the text. Still however, one would be amazed to know that this critical edition of Vaiseșika Sūtravștti by Muni Sri Jambūvijayajī is in a way a by-product of his critical edition of this book which is the result of the constant labour of nineteen years of Muniji.
The MS. of this Nayacakra is nowhere available till to-day, so it is a giant task to reconstruct the text with the help of the Pratikas of the commentator Śrī Sinhasūrigami in his Nyāyāgamānusāriņi. The measure of the original text of Nayacakra is 10000 ślokas and that of the commentary is of 18000 ślokas. How much labour and pain he has taken after this reconstruction is described in detail by the editor himself in his Gujarātī introduction. In this way he has
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