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tried his level best to reconstruct the original texts and has brought to the nearest reading of the original text. Of course, the MS of the original text being not available one cannot boast that this particular reading was an original one but at the same time the reading of the text also inspires the reader to congratulate the learned editor for his imagination to put the text to the nearest original reading. It is also the credit of Śrī Jaina Ātmānanda Sabhā to publish it as the 92nd book of its Śrī ātmānanda Jaina Granthamālā.
To facilitate the understanding of this work, the editor has adorned the work with his valuable and learned notes with equally useful foot-notes on the same. These notes and foot-notes are quite helpful to understand not only the trend of the commentator but also that of Mallavādi, the author of Nayacakra. The editor has further adorned this edition by giving a specimen of a Tibetan text in Nāgari script of a portion of the 1st Pariccheda of the Pramāṇasamuccaya of Dinnāga with his own commentary. Here also he has made the appendix quite useful with his learned foot-notes.
We also cannot but join with the learned introduction of Prof. Erich Frauwallner and our warmest thanks on behalf of all interested in the original works of Indian Philosophy and especially in Jaina doctrines are due to the editor who has taken such a tremendous amount of work upon himself. We also congratulate the trustees of Śrī Jaina ātmānanda Sabhā to publish such a jewel with low price that learned persons can afford to purchase. We hope that the other part of this book will soon be out.
J. S. JETLY
Pramâna-Naya-Tattvalokálankára of Vadidevasūri....... Rendered into English with a commentary by Dr. Hari Satya Bhattacharya. Published by Jaina Sāhitya Vikāsa Mandala-Bombay 56. Pages 677; price Rs. 20/- (Inland / 226; Sh. 19 (Foreign ).
This is the English translation of Vadidevsūri's Pramāņa-Naya-Tattvālokálankāra with Ratnaprabha's commentary thereon. This translation was done by Dr. Hari Satya Bhattacharya long ago and was once published parts by parts in the Jaina gazette which was then published from Madras. After the translation was fully published the attention of the famous scholar late H. Jacobi was drawn towards it and he wrote a Foreword to it. The Foreword of H. Jacobi was lost and whether the whole translation with H. Jacobi's Foreword was published in Jaina gazette or not is again a matter of research.
However, this learned and useful translation of such a difficult book like Pramāna-Naya-Tattvālokālańkāra with Ratnaprabha's commentary by a learned
