Dharmottarapradipa-Being A Sub-Commentary On Dharmottara's Nyayabindutika, A Commentary On Dharmakirti's Nyayabindu (An Old And Rare Book)

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Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute has great pleasure in placing before the world of scholars the Second Edition of Dharmottara- pradip. The value of the work is proved by the fact that the First Edition published in 1955 wert out of stock in a short time and there was persistent demand by learned scholars for its revised edition. The Institute is immensely thankful to Pandit Dalsukhbhai Malwania for kindly revising this edition within a short time. The Bihar Research Society being the custodian of the Tibetan Sanskrit manuscripts also deserves thanks for permitting the Institute to utilise the manuscripts for publication of the Tibetan Sanskrit work series by the K.P. Jayaswal Research Institute. It is hoped that this edition also will receive the same reception from the learned world.

This is a palm-leaf manuscript belonging to the Santinatha. Jaina Bhandara, Khambhat. It was written in Vikrama Samvat 1229 (A. D. 1172). It contains only the Nyaya-bindu-?ika. Prof. Peterson had started printing his edition (P) on the basis of this manuscript. After com- pleting the printing of the first chapter he happened to come across another manuscript (B). Therefore, he collated the two MSS. and gave a list of the different readings at the end of the first chapter. As regard to the subsequent chapters, he selected the more appropriate readings out of the two and included them in his text, and variants were given at the end. I have made use of these variants in my edition.

This manuscript is included in the Bhau Daji collection of MSS. in the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. It contains the Nyaya-bindu as well as the Nyaya-bindu-tika. The collection of the Society records this manuscript as Laghu-dharmottara-sutra. Prof. Peterson has edited Nyaya-bindu on the basis of this MS. He has also made use of this MS. in editing the Nyaya-bindu-tika. I have utilised the variants noted by him in his edition for the work.

This is a MS. of the Jaina Jñana Bhandara, Jaisalmer, estab- lished by Acarya Sri Jinabhadra Süri.