24. Sri Hemacandracarya's Yoga-Sastra with the author's 

 own commentary called Svopajna-vivarana published by 



the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



A Rejoinder by the Editor to the Review published in the ZeiU 



schrift 



Dr. Ferdinando 



By Sri Vijayadharma Suri. 



For many years it has been my duty and pleasure to teach 

 Hemaeandra's Yoga-Sastra to successive generations of Jaina 

 Sadhus and Sravakas. The want of a critical edition of the 

 text with the author's own commentary was keenly felt by 

 every one engaged in the teaching and study of it. A European 

 edition of it, that was published some 35 years ago, contained 

 the text only printed in Roman character of the first four of the 

 12 prakasas with a German translation. This edition, there- 

 fore, was of very little use to the class of students taking real 

 interest in its study. There was another edition containing the 

 text only, and a Gujrati translation both of the text and the 

 commentary published by Bhimsi Manik, and was, therefore, not 

 suited to the purpose of the students desiring to follow the sub- 

 ject in its original as laid down by the author both with respect 

 to text and commentary. I was every now and then requested 

 by my students to undertake an edition containing both the 

 text and the author's own commentary on it, but owing to 

 the scanty leisure at my disposal I was obliged to postpone this 

 work for a very long period. Three or four formes of the first fas- 

 ciculus of my edition were already printed when I was informed 

 of another edition being taken in hand by Dr. Ferdinando 

 Belloni-Fillipi under the auspices of the Jaina-Dharina-Prasaraka 

 Sabha of Bhavnagar. And a few days later, that Sabha sent to 

 me for revision the first instalment of the press copy prepared 

 by the learned scholar. This manuscript remained with me for 

 a period of three months. Though I am not in a position to 

 reproduce all such points which I marked then in his manu- 

 script, I shall quote one point which I well remember and which 

 will clearly indicate the nature of the difficulties he had to 

 meet with in the course of his work. 



For my reading ^ftftr, in page 5, line 9, he gives ^fv and 



marks it as an unsolved mystery. It would never have been 



the case with a Jaina who knows that *rftr is a HTf^Mrfa^roj 



or technical word and means mK. It would be enough to say 



