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Prasastapādabhāsya with Sridhara's Nyāyakandali : Edited and translated into Hindi by Pt. Durgadhara Jha, published by Varanaseya Sanskrit University, Varanasi, 1963 : Price Rs. 25=00.
We are really happy to know that in memory of the great Sanskrit Scholar Dr. Ganganath Jha a Series has been started by the Varanaseya Sanskrit University and we can rightly say that no better choice could have been made than the undertaking of the publication of the Nyāyakandali on Prasastapädabhäsya which was out of print for many years and which was in demand so much that scholars had to pay high price for the same. We must thank Prof. Kshetresachandra Chattopadhaya, the General Editor of the Series for his choice of this valuable book. The editor Pt. Durgadhara Jha has translated the Kandali in lucid Hindi and written an Introduction explaining the tenets of the Vaiseșika system. But he has observed silence on matters pertaining to authors life. We must congratulate him for preparing this nice edition. We know how exacting and tedious the task of editing is. He has enhanced the ultility of the edition by translating the difficult text on logic. The editor has emended the text on his own sweet will. This procedure is really helpful and one should adopt it if there were no other mss of the text available and if there were no other helpful and corroborative literature published. Otherwise is the case in the present instance. Varied mss of the text are recently found out at various places. And the vast Buddhist and Jaina literature pertaining to the subject has been published since the first publication of the Nyāyakandali in A. D. 1895. The utilisation of this literature could have enabled him to correct the text with authoritative support. I say all this not to minimise the value of the present edition but to suggest a course to be followed by any editor.
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