Tattvarthadhigam Sutram

Author(s): Keshavlal Premchand
Publisher: Bengal Asiatic Society

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not originally mark the number of Sûtras. It is very carefully revised and Sûtras are numbered afterwards besides containing a good पदच्छेद | This manuscript was obtained by me through the kindness of the Philological Secretary of the Asiatic Society. Unfortunately I received it after first three forms were published.
H-I have named the commentary of Haribhadrasuri H. I have seen three copies of this work. It was commenced by Haribhadrasuri and finished by the pupil of Yashobhadrasuri. A full description as well as the question of the priority of this commentary and that of Siddhesena will be given in the introduction.
K:--Manuscript K belonging to Mr. Shankerlal, of Kapadvanja, Kaira District. This manuscript contains Bhâshya up to 42 pages and then begins a commentary of Siddhasena extending up to 337 leaves. The manuscript was dated but someone has erased the date. It is a manuscript written in the fourteenth century. It is very beautifully written and is corrected in some places by someone. This is tolerably a good manuscript.
P-is a printed copy of the original text giving a Svetâmbara version of the text. Bhâshya is not published. P is printed by Tattvavivechakasabha at Pânjerâ Pole, Ahmedâbâd.
S-I have called the commentary of Siddhasena S. I have two copies of it. As far as possible, I have checked the text with the commentary. The commentary is Bhâshyânusari, i.e., follows Bhashya. It is rather a commentary on the Bhashya
itself.
U-This is the copy of the commentary of Siddhasena belonging to the Bhandara of Sheth Umabhai Hathising of Ahmedabad.
Besides these manuscripts, I have occasionally referred to other copies of both the text and the commentary of Siddhesena.
My sincerest thanks are due to Maharaja Anandasâgarji, who has been kind enough to look over my manuscript as well as some of the proofs, and who has practically put his whole library at my disposal; and to my brother Vakil Dahyabhai Premchand, who was the first to put the idea of editing such a work in my mind.
Lastly, it was only through the assistance and advice of Professor Hermann Jacobi that I was able to do this work. It was he who instructed me in the art of editing. He has been kind enough to supervise and revise my text and has read the final proof. My sincerest thanks are due to him.