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Under 5, details about the present edition are given, under the sub-headings. such as manuscripts material, grouping of thirty-four manuscripts, their description under groups A (1-7), B (1-22) and C (1-5, followed by the details about the manuscripts used for the present edition, the presentation of the text, the text proper of the play, some conventions, sources of qutations in the commentary, and punctuations. At the end of the Introduction a group-wise Table of the manuscripts is given.
Vol. I contains, besides the Introduction, the Sanskrit text of the Pañcikā commentary, in 307 pages. Vol. II contains the Sanskrit text of the Anargharāghava play proper, in 172 pages, followed by the act-wise Endnotes, Appendix I listing the variations in the order of verses in the play, Appendix II providing the dramaturgical analysis of the play according to the commentary, Appendix III listing the works and authors cited in the commentary, Appendix IV giving the extracts from two other commentaries on the play for comparison with the Pancikā, Appendix V comprising the index of untraced quotations in the commentary, Appendix VI index of dramaturgical and poetical terms in the commentary, Appendix VII an index of the verses of the play as commented on in the Pancikā, and Appendix VIII listing the sources consulted.
Dr. Bhat commands our hearty commendation for the excellent work he has done in preparing this critical edition of both the Pañcikā commentary and that of the play Anargharāghava. N.M.K.
Pāśupata Sampradaya, Udbhava Ane Vikāsa (Guj.), by Dr. Ramji H. Savaliya, publ. Ashutosh Savaliya, Ahmedabad, 1999, pp.xvi + 112, Rs.100/
This work by Dr. Savaliya is the first one in Gujarati on this subject. He has explored the sources right from the Vedic times up to the latest published inscriptions, and has collated all other relevant material in the form of the latest books on the subject as also of research articles. The veteran celebrated scholar M.M. Ke. Kā. Shastri has contributed a Preface (Āmukha), while Dr. Bharatiben Shelat, the Director of the B.J. Institute of Learning and Research, Ahmedabad, has written a Foreword (Purovacana) to this book over and above an Introduction (Prästāvika) by the author himself.
The book is divided into eleven chapters, the first one outlining the background (Bhumika). The subsequent chapters treat the topics such as the Saivism and its sects, the origin of the Pāśupata sect, its development, the rise of Lakulīša, the branches of the Pasupata sect, its literature, its tenets, its preceptors
