Sudansan Chariu

Author(s): Nayanandi Muni, Hiralal Jain
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology and Ahimsa

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The Government of Bihar established the Research Institute of Prakrit, Jainology and Ahimsa at Vaishali (Muzaffarpur) in 1955 with the object, inter alia, to promote advanced studies and research in Prakrit, Jainology and Ahimsa, and to publish works of permanent value to scholars. This Institute is one of the five institutions planned by this Government as a token of their homage to the tradition of learning and scholarship for which ancient Bihar was noted. Apart from the Vaishali Research Institute, four others, namely, the Mithila Institute of PostGraduate Studies and Research in Sanskrit Learning at Darbhanga, the K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute at Patna, the Bihar Rashtra Bhasha Parishad for Research and Advanced Studies in Hindi at Patna and the Nalanda Institute of Research and Post-Graduate Studies in Buddhist Learning and Pali at Nalanda have been established and have been doing useful work during the last few years.
As part of this programme of rehabilitating and reorientating ancient learning and scholarship, this is the Research Volume III, which is a critical edition of Nayanandi's Sudamsaņacariu prepared by Dr. H. L. Jain, an eminent scholar of Prakrit and Jainology. The Government of Bihar hope to continue to sponsor such projects and trust that this humble service to the world of scholarship would bear fruit in the fulness of time. .