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Preface.
During my stay in Bonn (summer 1911) Professor Jacobi
suggested to me, that I should undertake to collect from manu-
scripts available in Europe and India the various readings to the
text of the Uttaradhyayanasutra, in order to prepare a new edition
of that text on the basis of the one published by himself at Ahme-
dabad (in Doshi’s Series). The Berlin manuscripts were kindly
sent to Bonn for my use that same summer, and I went through
all the paper-MSS. and a part of the Sisyahitd of Sdntisuri. Since
then, thanks to the great obligingness of Dr. F. W. Thomas, I
have been able, during two visits paid to London (autumn 1911
and summer 1913) to go through at the India Office Library the
entire collection of Uttaradhyayana-MSS. belonging to the Deccan
College at Poona. The most important manuscripts from India
and the manuscript of the Sisyahitd from Berlin have also during
the interval been kindly forwarded to me at the instance of the
University Library of Upsala.
The result of my labour with this old and interesting text
during these years — a labour that was often for long periods inter-
rupted by various other tasks — is here laid before the public.
The critical treatment of a Sanskrit or Prakrit text — especially
a Prakrit one — will always be open to very grave difficulties on
account of the scarcity of really old and good manuscripts — the
younger manuscripts nearly always mechanically repeating the
same readings and giving very little of real interest — and also
on account of the bad orthography, especially prevalent in Jain
manuscripts. I have, however, been extremely lucky in getting
hold of some really old and valuable manuscripts, but I am, never-
theless, fully aware that I have not by any means been able to attain
what has been my aim in preparing this edition. Lor this has been
— and must be, as far as I understand the matter — to restore as far
as possible that text of the Sutra, which was used by the commen-
tator JDevendra. Whereas Louis LI. Gray, in his Vasavadatta,
Newyork 1913, p. 39, considers it ’perhaps . . . open to objection’
Arch Or. C harpentie r 1
During my stay in Bonn (summer 1911) Professor Jacobi
suggested to me, that I should undertake to collect from manu-
scripts available in Europe and India the various readings to the
text of the Uttaradhyayanasutra, in order to prepare a new edition
of that text on the basis of the one published by himself at Ahme-
dabad (in Doshi’s Series). The Berlin manuscripts were kindly
sent to Bonn for my use that same summer, and I went through
all the paper-MSS. and a part of the Sisyahitd of Sdntisuri. Since
then, thanks to the great obligingness of Dr. F. W. Thomas, I
have been able, during two visits paid to London (autumn 1911
and summer 1913) to go through at the India Office Library the
entire collection of Uttaradhyayana-MSS. belonging to the Deccan
College at Poona. The most important manuscripts from India
and the manuscript of the Sisyahitd from Berlin have also during
the interval been kindly forwarded to me at the instance of the
University Library of Upsala.
The result of my labour with this old and interesting text
during these years — a labour that was often for long periods inter-
rupted by various other tasks — is here laid before the public.
The critical treatment of a Sanskrit or Prakrit text — especially
a Prakrit one — will always be open to very grave difficulties on
account of the scarcity of really old and good manuscripts — the
younger manuscripts nearly always mechanically repeating the
same readings and giving very little of real interest — and also
on account of the bad orthography, especially prevalent in Jain
manuscripts. I have, however, been extremely lucky in getting
hold of some really old and valuable manuscripts, but I am, never-
theless, fully aware that I have not by any means been able to attain
what has been my aim in preparing this edition. Lor this has been
— and must be, as far as I understand the matter — to restore as far
as possible that text of the Sutra, which was used by the commen-
tator JDevendra. Whereas Louis LI. Gray, in his Vasavadatta,
Newyork 1913, p. 39, considers it ’perhaps . . . open to objection’
Arch Or. C harpentie r 1