Descriptive Catalogue of Govt Collections of Manuscripts Part 3

Author(s): Hiralal R Kapadia
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

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Preface
Avaśyakasūtra--a problem not finally solved by any scholar up till now, so far as I know
As regards the Reviews of this Jaina Catalogue (Pts. I and II) that I have seen, I find that on the whole my work is appreciated on all hands so much so that the late Prof. Winternitz did not only not find any fault whatsoever but fully approved of the plan followed there.' Prof. H. D. Velankar has however sounded a different note in his review. 2 He seems to suggest that too much attention has been paid to the objective side of the Ms. rather than the subjective one, and thus the question of providing materials “useful for the historical reconstruction of Jaina literature " is not sufficiently attended to. He holds me responsible for this attitude but I think this is owing to his not having paid due attention to what I have specifically mentioned in my Prefaces. This is again the reason why he finds fault with me so far as the inter-arrangement of Mss. dealing with the same work is concerned. This is neither the place to answer his criticisms nor is it incumbent upon me to do so as, after all, I have tried to carry out the instructions of the Institute.
Prof. Walther Schubring has made the following suggestions by way of corrections in his Review published in Orientalalıstische Literaturzeitung 1937 No. 3, pp. 186-187. They are as under :
Pt. I, p. 373: Kavacadara = Ārahanapadagå, dāra 30 from V. 26.
398 : Divasågarapannattisamgahaņī to be connected with 199 foll., because the D. S. P. forms a part of Jiväjivabhigamasutra.
399 : Pajjantärahaņà printed in Payannāsamgrahm Bh. 1, Ahmedabad, Samvat 1962.
427 : See Peterson I, p. 53 and 91, Weber II, p. 919; a medical treatise appreciated by the Svetāmbars as well as by the Digambaras ; for, the latter see Puspadanta Bhūtabali (as must be read ) and Pujyapāda.
1 Vide his review published in Archiv Orientalni ( Prague ) VIII, 2, 1936. The pertinent lives are as under :
“The Catalogue offers every thing that can be desired by the student of Jaina literature, both as regards details about the Mss. described, extracts from them, and references to editions, or accounts of the works in question ". .
This has been published in “ Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society” (vol. XII, 1936, pp. 118-120).