Risht Samucchaya

Author(s): Durgadevacharya, A S Gopani
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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General Editor's Preface. I feel highly pleased in presenting before the scholars this work called the Ristasamuccaya as the twenty-first volume of the Singhi Jaina Series carefully edited by Prof. Dr. Amritlal Savchand Gopani, my beloved pupil and learned colleague, with an exhaustive Introduction which abounds in information culled from all available original sources and which evinces his diligent and deep study of the subject.
Prof. Gopani had submitted this work as a thesis for the Ph. D. degree to the university of Bombay which has approved it and awarded him the Ph. D. degree for the same. In stating this I feel doubly glad because firstly, he worked for his thesis under my supervision, direction and guidance and and secondly, he is the first of my pupils to get the Doctorate.
Prof. Gopani had originally selected “ Nāņapañcanikahūa critical study" for his thesis and he has also prepared most of the same work with that view. Along with it he had also started working at my instructions on editing other works among which the Rislusamaccaya, a hitherto unpublished work was also one. Formerly I intended to publish it by instalment in Bharatiya Vidyour English bi-annual. But as his study and editing of the work progressed, he came across many things worth knowing and expounding, concerning the subject. This acquirement of novel material tempted him to devote more seriously to the problem of the subject and go through the whole relevant literature relating it with a spirit of research. As a result lie amassed so much original informations of various types that while putting the same in a systematic form, they assumed the size of the present voluminous work. Seeing that it has assumed an accomplished form, I decided to publish it as an independent work in the BHARATIYA Vidya SERIES.
In 1944, Babu Shri Bahadur Singhji Singhi, the founder of the Singhi Jain Series, made up his mind at my instance to hand over the management of the Series to the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. While accepting the terms and conditions of