Vaisheshika Sutram

Author(s): Jambuvijay
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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INTRODUCTION The Manuscripts etc.
The Visesikasütravrtti of Candrānanda is being presented in the following pages to the lovers of Indian philosophy for the first time along with the Vais'esikasūtras of Kanāda. The edition is based upon two Manuscripts :
(a) A Sāradā manuscript belonging to the Oriental Institute, Baroda. It bears the serial No. 393 in the Nyāya section and Accession No. 1831 (h) in the Alphabetical List of Manuscripts, Oriental Institute, Baroda, Vol. I, p. 666. It has been referred to as 'O' in the present edition. It consists of twenty one folia with 23 lines of about 21 syllables to a page. The MS. gives the Sutrapatha mixed with the Vịtti. It is complete, bears no date and is not very old.
(b) This is in Jaina Devanagarī script and belongs to Muni S'rī Punyavijayaji. It contains separate Sūtrapātha in the first five folia The sūtras again recur in their proper places in the Vrtti which extends from folio No. 6 to folio No. 34. The Sūtrapatha and the Vștti have respectively been marked as PS and P in this edition. Each page of the MS. contains 12 lines of about 42 syllables. Here also the date is not given. But the paper used and the hand-writing point out that it is fairly old and possibly belongs to the 13th or to the 14th century A. D. This is also complete.
Both the manuscripts abound with scribal mistakes as the foot-notes will show. The learned Editor, Jaina Muni Jambuvijayaji, the disciple of His Holiness Munirāja Srī BHUVANAVIJAYAJI MAHARAJA had to consult various Vais'eșika and Non-Vaiseșika works including Tibetan versions of Sanskrit texts in order to fix up the correct readings. He has added learned and critical notes and several appendices which will be of immense value to the readers. It is a matter of great satisfaction that the Vrtti of Candrānanda known since long in Mss' is now seeing the light of the day.
1. H. Wi-Vais'esika Philosophy, 1917, Intro. p. 137