Review: MAHĀNISĪHA STUDIES AND EDITION IN GERMANY : A REPORT

The present Prakrit Text Society Edition of the Mahanisiha-ajjhayana has been prepared by Pandit Shri Rupendrakumar Pagaria. The material he could utilize for the purpose was manifold, comprising the 'press-copy' of he Late Muni Shri Punyavijayaji, some manuscripts not available to Schubring and others, as well as two publications by Acarya Anandasagra and by Acarya Vijayendrasuri.

Transcribed from the prepared edition. This is the beginning of the article, not a summary — open the PDF to read it in full.

चन्द्रभाल त्रिपाठी का प्रतिवेदन दलसुख मालवणिया की प्रेरणा से तैयार हुआ और रूपेन्द्रकुमार पगारिया द्वारा सम्पादित प्राकृत टेक्स्ट सोसायटी संस्करण के साथ जोड़ा गया। इसमें शुब्रिंग, हाम तथा देल्यू के जर्मन शोध संगृहीत हैं; सात निष्कर्षों में महानिसीह को अनागमिक, नियुक्तियों से परवर्ती और गच्छाचार से पूर्ववर्ती बताया गया है। Candrabhal Tripathi's report, prepared at Dalsukh Malvania's instance and appended to Rupendrakumar Pagaria's Prakrit Text Society edition, gathers the German work on the Mahanisiha by Schubring, Hamm and Deleu. Its seven conclusions make the text apocryphal, later than the Niryuktis and earlier than the Gacchacara. Kansara calls it valuable.

Written by the archive’s cataloguers, not by the author.