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Introduction
Rev. Muni Punyavijayaji, a worthy disciple of a worthy guru, Muni Shri Caturavijayaji, is a great name in the field of Jainology. He has earned the title agamaprabhakara' on account of his continuous research. work. He, while critically editing the text of Ac. Malayagiri's vytti on Nandisutra, was confronted with the aphorisms of the science of grammar, traceable neither to Panini's Grammar nor to Hemacandra's Grammar. Struck with curiosity and eager to find out their source he asked his copyist to copy down the whole of the ms. of the present work preserved in Hemacandrajñānamandira at Patan. To his astonishment and delight be found, in the copy, the aphorisms in question. Afterwards, when he came to know that there was a ms. of the same work in the Bhandarkara Institute, he immediately got it copied through the pandit of that very Institute. After having with him copies of two different mss. of the same work, he made up his mind to get published a critical edition of the text of the work. And at last, the samkalpa of this great pious soul has borne fruit in the form of this critical edition. To me he is a perennial source of inspiration.
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CRITICAL APPARATUS
This ms, belongs to Sanghavi-päḍābhaṇḍāra at Patan. It is a broken and incomplete palm-leaf Ms. It bears the number 54 (Vide catalogue of Mss at Patan, G. O. S., p. 42). Its size is 14' x 2'. It seems to have been written in the 13th century of Christian Era. The title of the ms. is Malayagirivyākaraṇa. The work starts from the folio No. 35 and ends in the folio No. 178. Folio Nos. 36, 37, 39, 42, 63, 116-119, 121-127, 129-177 are missing. The ms. ends with the Taddhita-prakarana. Muni Shri Punyavijayaji who knew the importance of the work got this ms. copied in about 1946 A.D. He gave it to me for the preparation of the critical editon of the present work.
q. This Ms. of Sabdanusāsana belongs to Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona. It bears the No. 61 of 1880-81. It is a palm-leaf ms. containing 282 pages. Each page consists of 4 to 6 lines and each line consists of 50 letters. It is incomplete. It ends with the incomplete Krdanta-prakaraya, that is, the whole of the Taddhitaprakarana and a portion of the Kydanta-prakarana is not found in this ms. The ms. is corrupt and the letters of a word sometimes
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