जैन शिलालेख संग्रह : पहला भाग
जैन शिलालेख संग्रह का यह प्रथम प्रसून माणिकचन्द्र ग्रन्थमाला के अन्तर्गत सन् 1928 में प्रकाशित हुआ था। इस भाग में पहली बार देवनागरी में पाँच सौ शिलालेख हिन्दी-सार के साथ संगृहीत हैं। ये सभी आलेख प्रसिद्ध जैन तीर्थ श्रवणबेलगोल नगर, यहाँ की चन्द्रगिरि और विन्ध्यगिरि दो पहाड़ियों तथा श्रवणबेलगोल के आसपास के ग्रामों व मठ-मन्दिरों में विद्यमान हैं। भारतीय भाषा-साहित्य, इतिहास, पुरातत्त्व एवं जैन धर्म-दर्शन के प्रकाण्ड विद्वान एवं व्याख्याता प्रो. हीरालाल जैन ने इन लेखों का विधिवत् परिशीलन कर विस्तृत भूमिका के साथ इनके महत्त्व पर प्रकाश डाला है ।
यह सच है कि यदि हीरालाल जी ने यह महान कार्य नहीं किया होता तो हिन्दी के इतिहासविद् विद्वानों और लेखकों को जैन साहित्यिक, धार्मिक एवं राजनीतिक इतिहास के विषय में कुछ भी लिखना अनधिकार चेष्टा ही कहा जाता।
श्रवणबेलगोल की विन्ध्यगिरि पर स्थित 57 फीट ऊँची गोम्मटेश बाहुबली की विशाल एवं भव्य मूर्ति के फरवरी 2006 में आयोजित महामस्तकाभिषेक के अवसर पर इस पुस्तक के नये संस्करण को नये रूपाकार में प्रस्तुत करते हुए भारतीय ज्ञानपीठ को बहुत हर्ष है।
The inscriptions at Sravanabelgola were first collected and published by Mr. B. Lewis Rice, C.LE., M.R.A.S., Director of Archaeological Researches in Mysore, as far back as I 889. A thoroughly revised and enlarged edition of the same was brought out by the late Director of Mysore Archaeological Researches, Praktana Vimarsha Vichakshana Rao Bahadur R. Narsinhachar, M.A., M.R.A.S. While the first edition contained only 144 inscriptions, Rao Bahadur Narsinhachar has brought to light hundreds of other inscriptions from the same locality and his edition contains no less than 500 of them. The site may now be said to be more or less thoroughly explored.
These inscriptions have a peculiar interest for the historian in so far as all of them are associated in one way or another with the Jain Religion. Interest in historical researches has of late been awakened in almost all the important communities of India and it is a happy augury of the times that the Directors of the Manikachandra Digambara Jain Granthamala have decided to include in their distinguished series a set of volumes bringing together in a handy form, all the known inscriptions of the Digambara Jains, thus facilitating the work of the future Jain Historian. It was thought suitable and convenient to start this series with a volume of Sravanabelgola inscriptions and the work was entrusted to me.
The present edition is based upon the above mentioned two editions. It has, thus, nothing new to offer to the scholar, but to the general reader, who is interested in Jain History but who for one reason or another cannot go to the previous costly editions in Roman and Kanarese characters, this edition has a few advantages. The text of the inscriptions is here presented for the first time in Devanagari characters, the numbers of the inscriptions in the previous two editions have been given and the verses have been numbered to facilitate reference; the substance of the inscriptions having portions of Kanarese in them has been given in Hindi; all the important information about Sravanabelgola and its surroundings, as contained in the previous two editions is given in the introduction and the historical importance of the inscriptions from the Jain point of view is more thoroughly discussed and the index of the names of Jain monks, poets and works has been separated from the general index.
My sincere thanks are due to the Mysore Government and its distinguished Directors of Archaeology, mentioned above, without whose previous labours this edition would have been impossible and to Pandit Nathuram Premi, the able Secretary of the Manikachandra Digambara Jaina Granthamala without whose initiative and encouragement the work would have never been undertaken.
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