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THE AUTHOR'S FOREWORD
(From the Hindi Edition of 1952)
The present explanation of Tattvārtha was first published in Gujaratī in 1930 by the Gujarāt Vidyāpīth (Ahmedabad). A Hindi version of the same was published in 1939 in the form of the first volume of Shri Atmānanda-janma-Satābdi-smārakagranthamālā (Bombay). In this version some revision had been made in the Introduction; and its editors Shri Krishnachandraji and Pt. Dalsukhbhai Malvania had respectively added to it a word-index and the text of aphorisms along with the available alternative readings. In the Introduction the question of Umāsvāti's sect was particularly reconsidered and it was maintained that he belonged to the “vetāmbara sect. On the basis of this Hindi version the second edition of the Gujarāti Tattvārtha was published in 1940 in Shri Punjabhai Jaina Granthamālā (Ahmedabad); and with an addition of two or three special elucidations in the Explanation part the third edition of the same was published in the same granthamālā in 1949.
The present second edition of the Hindi version including the just mentioned elucidations is being published by Shri Jaina Sanskriti Sanshodhaka Mandala (Banaras).
In the Introduction to the present edition there has been made some new revision based on the available material—as can be noted by comparing this Introduction with that of the earlier edition.
The essential part of the foreword to the first Gujarāti edition (1930) is given below in a Hindi translation—from which three things can be chiefly gathered. First, what type of
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