Suvarna Raupya Siddhi Shastra

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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In connection with the , editing of the Suvarna-Raupya-Siddhi-sastra of Jinadatta Sūri. I express my gratitude to Prof. Dr. Harivallabh Bhayani, L. D. Institute of Indology, for kindly going through the prepared text of the Suvarna-Raupya-Siddhi śāstra and suggesting a few changes in some linguistic forms of Sanskrit, Prakrit, Apabhramsa and old Gujarati words of this text with corrections and helping me in studying different Chandas (metres) used by the author in the composition of the first and fourteenth chapters. I am indebted very much to Pandit Šri Laxmanbhai Hiralal Bhojak, a Research Assistant, and Pandit Babubhai Shah, an ex. Research Assistant of L.D. Indology, for their assistance in studying the original MSS. of the Suvarņa-Raupya-Siddhi-śāstra and preparing its text with variant readings. I am thankful to my young fellow brother, Dr. K. V. Sheth, a research officer, L. D. Institute, for his valuable suggestions in editing the Suvarņa-Raupya-Siddhi-Šāstra.
I am very much grateful to Prof. Dalsukh D. Malvania, ex-Director, L. D. Institute of Indology, for encouraging me in editing such a tough Jaina alchemical work written in different languages and going through my work.
J. C. Sikdar.