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expositers of the work for the lay public subscribing to the living Vaisnava way of religious faith as per the philosophical tenets of Shri Vallabhācārya and as per the rules of religious conduct as laid by his illustrious son Vitthlesa The speciality of this edition is that it follows the text-readings of the concerned Purána as adopted by Śrī Vallabhācārya in his famous commentary, called Subodhınī, which is held in high respect by all the suddhādvaita Vaisnavites Thus, from the text-critical viewpoint it is an excellent record of the text of the Purāna as adopted by the famous Ācārya In his Sanskrit Introduction, titled Prakāśana-prasāda-prakāśa, he has discussed in the traditional way the Anubandhcatustaya, as also the specialty of the Purāna from the viewpoint of a staunch Vallabhite Vaisnava It is thus a very useful work fulfilling the urgent needs of Vallabhite Vaisnavas in general and of the editors of the Bhāgavata Purāna who would find ready at hand mine of the readings of the text as followed by Vallabhācārya and adopted by him in his famous commentary called Subodhinijt with high respect His subtitle of the work, as he calls it Sätvat-Samhitā, is open to controversy, since there is quite a different work of that name and it is different from this Purāna NMK
ANANTANĀHA JINA CARIYAM of Śrī Nemicandra-sūri, edited by Pt Rupendra Kumar Pagariya, (L D Series 119), L D Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad, 1998, pp 24 + 747, Rs 400/This Prakrit metrical work is a biographical epic based on the life of the 14th Jaina Tīrthankara named Jina Anantanátha It has been edited and published for the first time by Pt Rupendra Kumar Pagariya from a single extant paper manuscript preserved in the Samvegi Upāśrasya Jñāna Bhandara in Ahmedabad Being a very old manuscript, some of the folios are too much dilapidated and worn out that the gaps are almost impossible to fill Over and above the mistakes, and a general tendency to confound va ba, cal va, ctha ccha, pa/e, e/pa, dda/tta, tth/ddha, w/o, etc, the scribe has at times written single consonants like kha, na, ma, tha, etc, in place of the conjunct ones like kkha, nna, mma ccha, ttha, etc He has at times failed to understand the padlmātrā of the subsequent syllable as a part of the previous one Hence, the editor has preferred to keep the reading as it is in the manuscript, even though it was difficult to make out its meaning
