Uvasagdasao

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1885, is a little antiquated, more useful to European readers than to university students of Prakrit in India. My indebtedness to Dr. Hoernle is immense as can be seen from the plan of the book, the numbering of perigraphs being kept the same for facility of reference. In the first of the two appendices I have given original Prakrit pasgages not given in full in the body of the present text; in the second I have giren, simi. larly, originaltexts in Prokrit and Pāli bearing on the history and philosophy of Gosāla, the leader of the Ājivika sect, which should be used by the reader os supplementary texts. In the Glossary I have dropped references to places of occurrence of words, but here incorporated additional explanations from the commen. tary and other sources which Dr. Hoernle did not think necessary. In the notes which are brief, but, I hope, to the point, I have made use of the commentary of Abhayadeva judiciously so as to make its incorporation in the present edition almosi superfluous. Lastly I have a long digression in the notes on the philosophy and history of Gosüla's School, practically culled for ready reference from Dr. Hoernle's article on the Ājivikss in Basting's Encyclopaedia of RFligion and Ethics.
Turning to the question of the age of the composition of the Jain canon in general and of the Uvāsagadasāo in particular I should like to mention a few salient features of the Jain itadition. In the second century after the nirvāṇa of Mahāvīra, i. e., in