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141 Acaryas), its important centres, the sculptures and images of Lakulīša, 'espectively.
While Lakulīša himself located himself in the Kāravana near Bharuch in South Gujarat, and propagated the faith in the south Gujarat and Saurashtra, the jubsequent preceptors of the Lakulīša sect have contributed very greatly to its development. But, now the sect has survived in the books only, as is the case with the Pāñcarātra sect of Vaisnavism, in those areas.
With due list of abbreviations, bibliography listing about sixty four Sanskrit, ifteen Gujarati, and forty-six English sources, the book is a valuable contribution to the Gujarati literature on ancient and medieval Indian culture, much in the tradition of the celebrated Durgashankar, and others. NMK.
Abhidhāna-rājendra-kosa mem Sukti-sudhārasa (Hin.), Parts 1-7, by Sadhvi Dr. Priyadarśanāśrī and Sadhvi Dr. Sudarsanāśrī, publ. Vora Khubchandbhai Tribhovandas of Tharad (N.Guj.), available from Madaraiaji Jain, Sadar Bazar, Bhinmal-343 029, 1998, pp. 181 +178 +192 +240 +252 +292 +196, Rs.75/-+ 50/- + 50/- + 50/- +50/- + 50/- + 75/- + 50/-.
In each volume, the first fifty-two pages containing the poetic Samarpana, the Subhākańksā, the Mangala-kāmanā, the Rasapürti, the Purovāk, the Abhara, the Sukrta-sahayogi, the Amukha, the Mantavya, the Do-śabda, the Suktisudhārasa Meri Drsti mem, the seven other Mantavyas, the Darpana, and the Viśva-pujya Jivana Darśana, are repeated. Similarly, the last sixty-nine pages containing five appendices, a list of the complete works of Viśva-pūjya, and the works of both the compiler Jain nuns, are the same, though the contents of the first four appendices change in accordance with that of the concerned part of the book. These four appendices give alphabetical index, subject index, the relevant page numbers and contents of the Abhidhāna-rājendra, and the index of the Gāthās and verses from the Jain and non-Jain literature. It is only between these two pieces that the text proper of the sayings as quoted by way of illustration in the voluminous Abhidhāna-rājendra-kosa, has been given.
The part-wise break up of the number of the Suktis contained in the whole work is as follows: (1) 251; (2) 259; (3) 289; (4) 467; (5) 471; (6) 607; and (7) 323, thus totaling 2667 sayings in all. Each of the Sukti is serially numbered independently in each separate volume. Each one of the Suktis is preceded by the mention of its topic, its Sanskrit or Prakrit text proper, its location in the part of the Abhidhana-rajendra dictionary and the page number thereof, its location in the original source work, and its Hindi elaboration.
