Risht Samucchaya

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

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THE RISTASAMUCCAYA Research Institute, Poona. It is titled the Ristasamuccaya'. Its accession number as stated on the cloth cover is 392 of 1879-80 (new no. 35). It has got five folios or ten pages written on both the sides. Each page, except the last which has s got twelve lines exclusive of Dvāragāthi and six additional stanzas, contains eighteen lines of approximately sixty letters each. The Ms. is in a fairly good order, is in Devanāgari script, is. legible throughout and the text is largely under Jaina Māhārāștri influence. There are less scribal errors but lacuna 10 are the same. The total number of stanzas comes upto 258.
The Ms. opens with H: »ft i quaerigrafitoardurapilafatehtati and closes with सिरिसंतिनाहभवणे मुणिभवियसम्मउले रम्मे ॥ There are seven more gathās at the end the first of them being a Dviragüthâ.
But they seem to have been added later as they reveal a different 15 hand altogether. In the margin there are marginal notes in Sanskrit at three places. This Ms. belongs to a different family as it shows at many places strong influence of Jaina Māhārāștrī Prākrit. It is also not a direct copy of B as stanza 28 which is
a quotation in Sanskrit in B is not to be found there in this Ms. zo Moreover, on the strength of marginal notes and the Dvāragāthā
and six additional stanzas it can be said with a fair amount of certainty that both the Mss. represent different families. In other words, this Ms. is a rendering in Māhārāștrī Prākrit of the original with marginal notes, Dvāragāthā and additional 25 stanzas inserted thereto later on.
S: This Ms. styled S was kindly procured for me by Acharya Jinavijayji: from Ailaka Pannalalji Digambara Jain Sarasvati Bhavan (Bombay) through Pandit Nathuramji PREMI. I am most thankful to both of them.
Its title is sifteaza and the number is 1527. It contains 203 stanzas in Jaina Sauraseni Prākrit. It is quite a new paper Ms, written by Jagaram, a Digambara Jaina, in 1981 (V. S.) in 10 folios measuring 1' x 6.7". Each page has ten lines invariably and each line contains about 44 letters. The script is 35 Devanāgarī and the handwriting uniform and beautiful.
It is well preserved, is quite new (it is only nineteen 1 It is so entered in the printed catalogue of the Mss. of the BORI, Poona. Though there is a difference of titles in both the entries, the subject treated is the same.
2 Some stanzas have not been numbered while some have been doubly numbered. This onomaly has been removed in the edition.