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of story-cycles of Simhāsana Dvatrimsikā in Sanskrit and Old Gujarāti. The work will be published in the Prācina Gurjara Granthamālā of the Baroda University. In continuation of the Prācina Phāgusangraha, a collection of 38 spring-poems edited hy me and Mr. S. D. Parekh (Baroda, 1955 ), Muni Ramanikavijayaji is editing some other unpublished specimens of the Phāgu-form. Dr. Earnest Bender who had prepared a scholarly edition of Nalarāya-davadanticarita of Rșivardhana ( American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1951 ) is presently editing the Dhanyavilása, a Jaina poem of the 18th century.
To mention a few important papers, Mr. Agarchand Nahata has written about the poet Merunandana and his works ( Vallabh Vidyanagar Research Bulletin, I. 1-2, 1957-58 ). Mr. Phulasinh has given a critical estimate of the Sitārama Caupai of the poet Samayasundara ( Maru Bhārati, January 1959 ) and Dr. M. R. Majmudar has published the Neminātha Caturmāsaka of Siddhicandra, well-known as a commentator of the Kādambari and a scholar of Persian (VVSG). I have edited the poem Varna Batrisi, describing the characteristics of different castes and professions (Vallabh Vidyanagar Research Bulletin, I. 2, 1958 ) and Mahāvira Vinati, a devotional pocm in the Drutavilambita metrc by Jayaśckharasūri, who lived in the 15th century ( Jaina Yuga, April 1958). Prof. H. R. Kapadia has given a detailed note on the Yogaratnākara Copãi, a work on medicine composed by Nayanaśckhara in 1670 A.D. (Bhișak Bhārati, V.7, August 1958 ).
Kannada has many old classics by the Jaina authors, and a good deal of research and publication work about the same has been undertaken during recent years. Professors D. L. Narasimhachar and T. S. Shama Rao liave edited Sukumāra Carite of Santinātha, composed in 1068 A.D., with exhaustive Introduction and glossary (Mysorc, 1954). Prof. Narasimlachar has also edited Vaddärādhanc of Sivakoțyācārya, a prosc-classic of the carly Toth century, on the basis of seven manuscripts ( second cdition, Mysore, 1955 ) and Salılamamidarpaņa, an
