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PREFACE
The language of the Sanskrit Prabandhas written by medieval Jaina
authors of Western India represents, as it were, a regional style of Sanskrit. A
lexicographical study of the same was, therefore, a long-felt desideratum. The
Prabandhacintāmaņi of Merutungasūri (1305 A.D.), the Prabandhakośa of
Rājaśekharasūri (1349 A.D.) and the Purātanaprabandhasangraha-all edited
by Muni Jinavijayaji and published in the Singhi Jaina Series-were selected for
the purpose, the foremost specimens as they are of the Prabandha literature as
such.
These studies were published serially in the Journal of the Oriental
Institute, VIII. 2, IX. 3-4, X, XI and XII. 1 and were appreciated by scholars
of Sanskrit and Präkrit in India and abroad. They are now being presented in
book-form as no. 5 of the M. S. University Oriental Series.
B. J. S.
The language of the Sanskrit Prabandhas written by medieval Jaina
authors of Western India represents, as it were, a regional style of Sanskrit. A
lexicographical study of the same was, therefore, a long-felt desideratum. The
Prabandhacintāmaņi of Merutungasūri (1305 A.D.), the Prabandhakośa of
Rājaśekharasūri (1349 A.D.) and the Purātanaprabandhasangraha-all edited
by Muni Jinavijayaji and published in the Singhi Jaina Series-were selected for
the purpose, the foremost specimens as they are of the Prabandha literature as
such.
These studies were published serially in the Journal of the Oriental
Institute, VIII. 2, IX. 3-4, X, XI and XII. 1 and were appreciated by scholars
of Sanskrit and Präkrit in India and abroad. They are now being presented in
book-form as no. 5 of the M. S. University Oriental Series.
B. J. S.