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SAMBODHI (1) The MNA is not canonical but apocryphal and thus not identical with its namesake mentioned in the Nandisutra. (2) It is later than the Niryuktis, Bhāsyas and "Vrddha-vivarana" quoted or referred to in it. (3) It is surely earlier than the Gacchācāra and most probably earlier than the Upaśesamālā of dharmadāsa-gani (ca. 900 A.D.) (4) There are a few remarks in it which may be even as late as 13th Cent. A.D. (5) Its language and metrics present many unusual and some incorrect features which are surely due to the "work” of one still unknown person. (6) Neither Jinabhadra-gani nor Ācārya Haribhadra can be regarded as the editor of "original Mss. in deplorable condition". (7) Its position in the sacred literature of the (Sverāmbara) Jainas has been since its composition not uncontested.
Dr. Tripathi has done a valuable service to the Prakrit Text Society edition of the Mahānisiha by adding this Report to it, which is bound to enhance the scholarly value of it. This Report, wherein the main parts of his studies are incorporated is dedicated respectfully by Dr. Tripathi, to Prof. Dr. Jozef Deleu on the occasion of his birthday. Jaina scholarship and Indic scholarship generally should be grateful to Hamm, Deleu, Schubring for a vast amount of scholarly studies they have undertaken on the Mahānisība, and to Dr. Tripathi for having made them available, in this Report in English grab, to them although they were a vast amount of material scattered over three volumes N.M.K.
DASAVEYĀLIYA PĀDA INDEX AND REVERSE PADA INDEX by Moriichi Yamazaki, Yumi Ousaka and Masahiro Miyao. Philologica Asiatica Monograph Series 1, Publ. The Chuo Academic Research Institute, Tolyo, 1994, pp. iii + 92.
ISIBHĀSIYĀIM PADA INDEX AND REVERSE PÄDA INDEX by Moriichi Yamazaki and Umi Ousaka. Publ. The Chuo Academic Research Institute, Tokyo, 1994. Philologica Asiatica Monograph Series 2. pp. iii + 88.
Dr. Yamazaki and his co-authors had noticed that to date, in the oldest Buddhist texts there were only two indexes of pada of the Suttanipāta and the Dhammapada, along with their reverse indeses of the above two works and of the Theragathā pādas. In early Jain canonical texts a Jain Agama Series indeed contains an index of the first pādas only. Dr. W.B. Bollée lias
