Vivag Suyam

Author(s): P L Vaidya
Publisher: P L Vaidya

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INTRODUCTION
[FIRST EDITION ]
THIS edition of the Vivagasuya, Sk., VipakaBruta, the eleventh Anga of the Canon of Svetāmbara Jains, is designed on the same plan and principles as my editions of the Uvasagadasão and other works, and is expected to meet the requirements of the F. Y. Arts students of the Bombay University and students of Prakrits and Jainism in general. There are a few earlier editions of this work, viz., Rai Dhanapati sing Bahadur's edition (Calcutta, 1876), the Agamodaya Samiti's edition (Surat, 1922), the Bhavnagar edition (1916) and the Baroda edition (1919), but none of them is suited to the requirements of University students, and all of them are now out of print. I therefore thought that a new edition was urgently needed, such as would present a scientifically correct text on the material supplied by the printed editions mentioned above, the commentary of Abhayadeva (C in foot notes), and Mss. of the bare text at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona (A and B). I hope I have succeeded in giving a fairly accurate text of the work in the present edition. I have added a glossary of Prakrit words (Proper names omitted) with their meanings in Sanskrit and English to make the book more useful to the student world. The summary of the text