Risht Samucchaya

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

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( 16 ) the agreement, the Bhavan authorities resolved that all the Jain works undertaken to be published by the Bhuvan, should be published in the Singhi JAIN SERIES if they conformed to the standard and spirit fixed and maintained by the Series. Accordingly, this work is now published in the Sinchi Jain SERIES.
The Ristasamuccaya is an important, precious, typical work of Durgadeva, it Digambara Jain author. It seems that the author had obtained greater proficiency in Jyotis, Nimitta etc. as he was more interested in them. The author's deep knowledge of the subject becomes manifest from the perusal of Arghakanda, another available Prakrit work of the same author, giving informations from the astrological view-point, regarding that aspect of the science of astrology which trests of the rise and fall of the prices of various commodities.
Prof. Dr. Gopani has ably shown in this work his painstaking nature, deep study, and original grasp as evidenced through his collection of facts and data from the Vedic, Buddhistic and Jain literature as well as European such as Greek, Roman and Early Christian and marshalling them in a due order. When I saw it in such a finished form I just felt why he should not submit it to the University of Bombay as a thesis for the Ph. D. degree which he did in pursuance of my advice and succeeded in getting the same. I take this opportunity of warmly congratulating him at his success and of blessing him with good wishes that he may be able to add his might to beautifying the noble and lofty ideal of the Series by producing more splendid works in future.
Gurupūrnimă, ĀSĀDHA, V. S. 2001
JINA VIJAYA MUNT. . 24th July, 1945.