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dation of Bhamasa Bharati Mandir and Shri Haribhadra Suri Smriti Mandir. He received the co-operation of a number of learned scholars and has edited more than a hundred rare works. He delivered the Thakkar Vasanji Vyakhyanamala of the Bombay University. He was awarded the title of "Padmashri" by the Government of India. He became a member of the German Oriental Society and was also the President of the Gujarat Itihasa Parishad.
He remained the Hon. Director of the Bhavan till 1954 when he formally retired to work more vigorously at Jaipur and thereafter I was asked to be the Hon. Director. As stated above, he moved from place to place, from time to time and subsequently on account of age, failing health and more particularly his failing eye-sight, the tempo of publication of the Singhi Jain Series became slow, more particularly because he was keen to write an exhaustive Introduction to each publication himself. In spite of repeated requests from me, it was not possible for him to write these Introductions in view of the aforesaid difficulties. However, the Bhavan was able to bring out two volumes in 1966 and 1967 by Dr. A. N. Upadhye and Tarunaprabhacharya's Shadavasyaka-Balavabodha yritti edited by late Dr. Prabodh Bechardas Pandit in 1976. The last mentioned work contains in detail an exhaustive Introduction by Muniji, written at my repeated special requests, and gives the history of this Series. Even though it is named as Singhi Jain Series, Muniji has included in it many non-Jain works also. The series has gained international recognition and is referred to as a prestigious publication in the Report of the Sanskrit Commission appointed by the Government of India.
Vinaya-Sutra of Mūla Sarvāstivādin school of Buddhism by Bhadanta Guņaprabha was secured and brought to light by late Tripitakāchārya Mahāpandita Sri Rāhul Sankrityayana. He has critically edited this text. In “the Chinese Buddhist Tripataka" by Bunyiu Nanjio, (Oxford 1883) Co. 1441 is the Vinaya Pilaka of the Mula Sarvāstivādhins. It appears that the manuscript of the present Vinaya Sutra of the same school by Bhadanta Gunaprabha was secured by late Rāhulji either from China or Tibet.
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Rāhulji was born on April 9, 1893 at Panda ha in Azamgarh Disstrict, U. P. in India. His original name was Kedarnath Pande. His father was Govardhan Pande and mother was Kulavanti Devi. He became a Sādhu in 1912, and twice went to jail in the political movements. In 1927 he went to Sri Lanka as a Sanskrit teacher and there he studied Buddhist literature. He went to Tibet four times in 1929, 1934,
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