Vaishali Institute Research Bulletin 1

Author(s): Nathmal Tatia
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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PROGRESS OF PRAKRIT AND JAINA STUDIES 173 The editions are enriched with introductions, detailed contents and appendixes including an appendix specifying the loci of full texts which usually appear abridged by means of java (up to), and exhaustive word-indexes which are done for the first time and will provide a solid basis for compilation of the much-needed Prakrit lexicon.
Of the above five texts, the first two are each supplemented by five accessory volumes of (1) critical study, (2) the text with learned prefaces, Sanskrit rendering, Hindi translation and index of verses or sūtras, and (3) annotations based on the Nijjuttis, Chunnis and Tikās, exploited for the first time for such purpose. (4) The story-contents of the texts are published in a fourth volume, (5) an abridged edition of the text with excerpts classified topicwise constituting the fifth. These volumes are already published, and similar accessories to the other texts are under preparation.
The annotations, critical studies, and translations, as also the skill with which the appendixes are compiled reveal the depth and devotion of the monks and nuns, the profound scholarship of Muni Shri Nathmalji and the genius of Acharya-Shri Tulsi as the learned VachanaPramukha. The annotations are prepared with extreme care, clearing many a term of its hoary obscurity. The critical studies are each worth a doctorate.
Publications
6. The outstanding publication of the period is the Duadaśaram Nayachakram of Acharya-Shri Mallavadi-ksamasramana with the commentary Nyāyāgamānusăriņi of Shri Simhasuri-gani-va di-ksamasramana, Part I, edited with critical notes by Muni Jambuvijayaji. It is published by Shri Jain Atmanand Sabha. Bhavnagar. The editorial art renovated by Pandit Sukhlalji and sedulously pursued by the late lamented Pandit Mahendra Kumar Nyayacharya and Pandit Dalsukh Malvaniya in editing manuscripts and restoring the lost texts, has attained a new dimension in the hands of Muni Shri Jambuvijayaji, which has compelled even the western critics to bow to the scholar in recognition of hls learning. In his Introduction to the edition, Dr. Erich Frauwallner, Professor of Indology and Iranian Philology at the University of Vienna, appreciates the intractable difficulties of the work and the Herculean labours of the Editor in reconstructing the original text from Simhasuri's commentary, and coinmends his achievement in the following words which bear out my appraisal :
“I am very happy to say that the editor of the present edition, Muni Jambuvijaya, has mastered to perfection all these diffi