Pañcasūtrakam of Cirantanācārya by Muni Śrī JambūvijayajīReview by: E. B.Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 109, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1989), p. 174Published by: American Oriental SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/604420 .

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174 Journal of the American Oriental Society 109.1 (1989)

It is assuring to know that indological studies are alive and well in France, when chairs in Sanskrit are threatened else- where and support for the teaching of Sanskrit on the different levels is being weakened in its very homeland.

ERNEST BENDER

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Jaina Giurjara Kavio. Edited by MOHANLAL DALICHAND DESAI and revised by JAYANT KOTHARI. Two volumes. Bombay: MAHAVIRA JAINA VIDYALAY, 1986, 1987. Vol. 1:

pp. 62 + 508; vol. 2: pp. 10 + 404.

The Mahavira Jaina Vidyalay, to the good fortune of

indologists, has decided to re-issue this standard work which has long been out of print. Jayant Kothari has thoroughly revised and enlarged this second edition of the descriptive catalogue of works in Gujarati by Jain poets. Volume 1 covers the period from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, v.s., and volume 2 the seventeenth century. Works are listed under the names of their authors, with descriptions and

pertinent information. While the original set consisted of four volumes, it is difficult to estimate how many will

comprise the second, for the page-size of this handsome edition is 5Y/4" x 8Y8" against the 4Y8" x 7" of the original, with 31 lines per page versus 28 lines. We eagerly look forward to its completion. Researchers engaged in compara- tive work in the Indo-Aryan languages and literatures, espe- cially in Jain studies, will be pleased to learn their access facilitated.

E. B.

Paficasiitrakam of Cirantandcdrya. By MUNI SRI JAMBU-

VIJAYAJI. Delhi: BHOGILAL LEHERCHAND INSTITUTE OF

INDOLOGY, 1986. Pp. 8 + 113. Rs 120.

We owe this first critical edition of the Paficasitrakam of

Cirantanacarya to the erudition of Muni ril Jambiivijayaji, the eminent scholar versed in Jain Agama texts, as well as

various other systems of Indian philosophy. The edition of

this post-Agamic text, composed in Ardhamagadhi prose by

an obscure author, Cirantana, in the early centuries C.E., is

based on eight manuscripts-four palm-leaf and four paper.

The author of the commentary to this text is the erudite

acarya, Haribhadra, of the mid-eighth century, C.E., famed

for his numerous vrttis on agamic texts and philosophical treatises, composed in Sanskrit, as well as kathanakas (tales)

in Jaina Mahdrastril. Traditionally viewed with the highest

esteem by monks and nuns, together with the orthodox, who

daily recite the five sitras (or, at least, the first), the Pan-

casuitraka-also known as "Paficasiitra and Paficasfatr"- was devised to guide the mumuksu, i.e., one striving for

Liberation, through the five stages to the Ultimate Goal

(siddhi or moksa). Students of Jainism will find this work invaluable, as do I,

and as will those engaged in comparative researches in

philosophy and religion.

E. B.

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