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about the gth century A.D., and its material, at least in the historical section, appears to have been utilized by Hema: candra in his Parisistaparvan or Stavirāvalicarita, which is the Parisista or appendix to his .great work Trişastiśalākāpuruşacarita, just as the Harivamsa is Khila or supplement to the Mahābhārata. : "Ratnaprabhasūri's Viśeşa Vrtti on the Upadeśamālā, morc well-known as a Dogațți Vịtti (1182 A.D.), has been edited by Ācārya Hemasāgarasűri (Bombay, 1958). Upadeśamālā of Dharmadāsa is a Prākrit Prakaraña in 540 Gäthās. This extensive commentary with a Granthägra of 12,000 ślokas explains the Prākrit verscs in Sanskrit, but gives the stories in Prākrit, like the commentaries on the Canonical texts, and some stories in Apabhranisa too, which deserve to be separately studied, as is done by Dr. Alsdorf in the case of the Apa bliranıśa part of the Kumāra pālapratibodha of Somaprabha (Hamburg, 1928). The Prākrit, Jambusvāmicarit'a of 852 Gathās occurring in the Doghatti Výtti has been scparately brought out by its editor (Rombay, 1957). .
Mülasuddhi Prakaraṇa in 212 Gathās with tlc.commentary (Granthāgra 13,000 ślokas) of Devácandra, the preceptor of the famous Hemacandra, las been edited by Pt. Amritlal Bhojak for thc Singhi Scrics. In addition to the numerous Prākrit storics the commentary contains one wholc pocm in Apablıramsa, vixir Sulasakklāņu.
Dr. R. iVilliams las edited two Prākrit versions of thic Mani páticaritra (Royal Asiatic Sociсty, London, 1959). He has printed two texts with English translation-Manipaticaritrå by 'some' unknown writer, which is the oldest known version of the story, composed probably in the 8th century A.D., and another version by Haribhadrasūri composed in 1116 A.D. The cditor has noted 18 different versions of this story, out of whichi 113 are in Gujarati. In addition to a brief Introduction the cditor has given short notcs, an index of Subhāşitas, and :
