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Vol. XIX, 1994-1995
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171 Vijayendrasūri respectively, which have the value of a manuscript each. Shri Pagaria not only fills up the gaps left by Schubring in his edition (e.g.VIII 17-18) but also offers some better readings. He retains luckily the numbering of Chapters, Sections and Verses of the German edition, thus making it easy to locate in this edition the passages mentioned in the Report.
This Report was prepared by Dr. Chandrabhal Tripathi (Berlin), at the instance of Pandit Shri Dalsukhbhai Malavania (Padmabhūsana), about the studies and the edition of the Maliānisīha by Professors Walther Schubring, FrankRichard Hamm and Jozef Deleu, so that it could be attached to the edition of the Mahānisila which was being published by the Prakrit Text Society, Ahmedabad. The valuable contributions of Walther Schubring and F.R. Hamm being in German, the scholars not conversant with the language could till now not benefit from them. The work of Albrecht Weber is available in English. So alos the contribution of Jozef Deleu is also in English. Important parts of both have been included in the present Report.
Since the German contributions are distributed over a long span of time (1918-63) and penned by two scliolars, and in three volumes, a direct and complete translation of them would have been of little use. And since they contain some repetitions, and some of the views expressed by Schubring in 1918 were not maintained by him in 1963, it was decided that the contributions of Weber and others should be arranged a new and edited in English grab. Thus $ 3-8 are based on their writings. The contents of the Maliänisīha I-IV as described by them are given in $ 3. The analysis of its language and metres follows in $ 4-5, the parallels detected by Schubring and others are discussed in $ 6. These lead in $ 7 to the results achieved by them about the date and authorship of the MNA. $ 8 contains conclusions drawn by Schubring and deleu. In $ 9 some important passages which are often discussed have been collected. In $ 10 some reviews of the Studien zum Mahānisīha are printed. Dr. Tripathi has given in $ 1 full details about the publications concerned and in $ 2 about the manuscripts utilized. The Report concludes with his Epilogue. He has been hielped by Professors Colette Caillat, Nalini Balbir, Klaus Bruhn, R. Grunnendall and others, and some of them have introduced him to the subtle teclinicalities of computor.
In his Epiologue Dr. Tripathi lias presented liis mainresults briefly as follows:
