Vaishali Institute Research Bulletin 1

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

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culties, and has given us a text as best as can be achieved at the present time. Clarity has been gained on the extant manuscripts and Muni Jambuvijaya's notes to the text give reliable information as to the tradition, so that a stable basis is supplied for further research. His reconstruction of the original makes it possible to follow Mallava di's trends of thought also in passages, where absolute certainty cannot be achieved... At any rate, the text of the commentary is reliable and has been made legible by means of various corrections. Above all, this text gains greatly by numerous notes and cross-references
related texts, thus aiding in the comprehension of the original itself. Here special mention should be made of the Bhotaparišiştam, which contains the relevant passages from Dignaga's Pramāņa-samuccayaḥ, Thus the author's painfully accurate labours have opened a way of approach to such an extraodinarily difficult text. The warmest thanks of all interested in Indian philosophy and specially in Jaina doctrines are due to the editor who has taken such a tremendous amount of work upon himself”.
The Sugandhadaśami-katha published by the Bharatiya Jnanapitha, Varanasi, bears a stamp of mature editorship of Dr. Hiralal Jain who provides it with an excellent introduction embodying his vast studies in world literature.
The Hindi translation of the Aptamiņāmsā, by the nonagenarian savant Acharya Jugalkishor Mukhtar is a work of perfect scholarship.
The Leśya-kośa compiled by Sri Mohanlal Banthia will inspire the scholars of Jainism for a critical study of the subject, leading to a clear formulation and evaluation of the doctrine and its bearing on the metaphysical speculations of ancient India.
The Ganadharavāda by Dr. Esther A. Solomon, pubished by the Gujrat Vidya Sabha, Ahmedabad, is based entirely on Maladhari Hemachandra's commentary on the Višeșāvašyaka-bhäsya.
Dr. Harisatya Bhattacharya's Reals in Jaina Metaphysics published by the Seth Santi Das Khetsy Charitable Trust, Bombay, has been reviewed in the Jain Journal (Vol. II. 1). His another work, the English translation of the Pramāna-naya-tattva -lokalankara of Vadi-Deva. suri with a commentary, mainly following the Ratnakarā vatārika puulished in 1967 by the Jain Sahitya Vikas Mandal, Bombay, is a work of great industry,