Samayasara

Author(s): Kundkundacharya, Hiralal Jain, A N Upadhye
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith

Page 10

GENERAL EDITORIAL
branches of Indian literature. It is through their generous patronage that the second edition of the Samayasāra by the late Prof. Chakravarti is being published here in the Mürtidevi Granthamala. There is no change in the contents; but care has been taken to print the Prakrit and Sanskrit texts more correctly and to add diacritical points, etc., for the Sanskrit words used in this work.
The General Editors remember with gratitude the late Prof. A. Chakravarti who gave this work for publication in this Granthamālā and record their sense of gratefulness to the patrons of the Granthamālā who kindly financed the publication of this second edition,
Mahavira Jayanti.
April 8, 1971.
H. L. Jain A. N. Upadhye
Note 1. For a detailed study about Kundakunda and for bibliographic references, etc., about his works, the readers are referred to the Introduction to the edition of the Pravacanasāra by A. N. Upadhye published in the Rajachandra Jain Granthamala, 3rd ed., Agas 1964, and also the Prabhịta-Samgraha by Pt. Kailash Chandra Shastri (Sholapur 1960). Lately, the Prakrit texts of Kundakunda's works are critically constituted by Dr. A.N. Upadhye and supplied to the Svādhyāya Mandira Trust, Songad ( Saurashtra ) where they are being inscribed on marble tablets.
Note 2. We are thankful to Thiru V. Jaya Vijayan, B.E. ( 33, Pudupet Garden street, Royapettah, Madras-14), for the bio-date of Prof. ChakraVarti. He is the grand-son of the late Professor from his daughter Smt. V.C. Jothimalai. ( a. n. u.)