Vol. VI, No. 6.] 8ri Hemacandracarya' s Yoga-S'dstra. 271 



[N.S.] 



Now this ifTOTTVTO* is, as is known to every Jaina, a defective 

 reading. The word vfx is a necessary adjunct here. Accord- 

 ing to our S'astras (vide Siddhasena Suri's Pravacana-Sarod- 

 dhara, Tika, 67thDvara, where the writer says *f*w *j*m?r WTW^ 



*wfalsfaWfH: STOcTO^nfc ^fwsjiT ^T^^^T^r xfq) the word ^Tf^ in- 

 dicates here that in addition to ^rer, i.e., ri^^r water, grain, 



wheat, etc., should also be taken. This is the Sanskrit elabora- 

 tion by Hemacandra of the Prakrit gatha which lie gives at 

 the head verbatim from the Pinda-Niryukti (vide leaf 1 8 of the 

 MS. of the work belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal). Malayagiri Suri in his commentary of the gatha takes 

 the same view as we have done. 



It is to be seen from the discussion given above that I do 

 not pass over any thing that comes on my way without ex- 

 amining it in all its details. I should further like to state, 

 that many other similar things I come across in course of my 

 work , and at every point I have to spare a certain amount of 

 my energy before I can definitely put down anything either as 

 text or variant. And with a man working in this way the work 

 will multiply with the multiplication of independent MSS. of 

 the work he is editing. But this is not disgusting to me : I take 

 more interest in it as is always the case with a man to whom 

 the task of editing a work is a labour of love. 



Now it remains for me to examine critically Dr. Belloni- 

 Fillipi's other remarks concerning my work. In page 4, line 



10, in the Sloka ^g^?p^f*» m ^rra *<jfwiqr*T: i fk?% **pc «j^ 



^nlillfa?^ ^f il u II Here I have fa3^. and in this connection 

 I have the support of all the MSS. that I have got with me. 

 On the other hand, the critic holds that the proper reading 

 should be fk^il, since this he finds in all his MSS. and thinks it 

 more appropriate with respect to ^rnr ^nr" and to the following 

 . But as I understand, the word fk$*Z means "entered ", 

 and if the word be possibly inserted here, it must have for it- 

 nominative *£ " the earth ", and as a matter of common sense 

 the earth cannot enter as a whole into anything that is situated 

 on its own surface, as the k% is. My use of the word fa^ is 

 justified from the following considerations : The earth is trem- 

 bling (lit., trembled as my reading fk^t means) in its own place, 



and by Utpreksa this trembling of the earth or the earthquake 

 caused by the Lord's pressing the Meru with his thumb 

 (since the force exerted upon any body will be conveyed to the 

 base through its medium) has been taken to mean " dancing " 



