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REVIEWS
N. M. Kansara
AYARANGA WORD INDEX AND REVERSE WORD INDEX, Yamazaki, Morichi and Ousaka, Yumi - Philologica Asiatica Monograph series 8, The Chuo Academic Research Institute, Tokyo, 1996, pp. ii + 105. SUYAGADA WORD INDEX AND REVERSE WORD INDEX, Yamazaki, Morichi and Ousaka, Yumi - Philologica Asiatica Monograph Series 9, The Chuo Academic Research Institute, Tokyo, 1996, pp. ii + 121.
Both Yamazaki and Ousaka have so far published similar pada index and reverse pada index to the following five early Jaina Agamic texts, viz., Dasaveyālia, Isibhaiyaim, Uttarājjhaya, Ayāranga and Suyagada, by doing the metrical and the grammatical analysis with the help of computor. Now, they have employed the said technic for compiling the word index and reverse word index of these texts. As a result they have given us the word index and reverse word index for the Āyāranga and also for the Suyagad. The Āyāranga consists of nine chapters in prose and verse. To distinguish prose from verse they have marked the locational numbers with an asterisk in the case of its occurrence in prose. For instance, the entry "avaharai *9.5' indicates that this verse occurs in the fifth line of page nine, while the entry 'tippamano 8.10' indicates that this word occurs in verse ten of chapter 8, being without the asterisk mark. This applies to both these texts in the respective books, since the Sūyagada too consists of sixteen chapters in prose and verse. These two scholars have taken up the research mission of compiling the pada index and reverse pada index as also the word index and reverse word index of the above-mentioned five Jaina Āgamic texts. We may, therefore, eagerly wait for the remaining three word and reverse word indices from them in near future.
For the Āyaranga word and reverse word Index they have utilised as the basic text Schubring's critical edition, while for that of the Suyagada they have based it on P. L. Vaidya's edition. We are at a loss to know whether they are in the know about the Mahāvīra Jaina Vidyalaya, Bombay (or Muinbai) edition of the Jaina Āgamic texts, published by the efforts of the late Muni Shri Punyavijayaji, and if they do know about it, why have not chosen to base their valuable and
