Raja-Cekhara’s Karpura-Manjari - A Drama by the Indian Poet Rajecekhara (About 900 A.D.). Critically Edited in the Original Prakrit with a Glossarial Index and an essay on the life and writings of the Poet and Translated into English with Notes

The central point of interest in the history of India is the long development of the religious thought and life of the Hindus — a race akin by ties of blood and language to our own Anglo-Saxon stock. [...] The work now presented to the world of scholars is the first critical edition of the only Prakrit drama extant the Karpfira-mafijari of Rajgekhara who flourished about 900 A. D. The sacred scriptures of the Jaina religion are written in Pritkrit. [...] It abounds in material which may well engage the attention of the student of antiquities 4 and of folk-lore.6 And its allusions to matters of geography or of the calendar to facts of natural history or to popular beliefs concerning those facts 6 challenge the widest erudition of the expositor. [...] progress of the labor of issuing the works of my two departed friends the Atharva-Veda of Professor Whitney and the Visuddhi-Magga of Henry Clarke Warren. [...] In the introductory paragraphs therefore pages 213-222 I have done my best to make clear the sequence of the inferential as well as of the explicit parts of the action and likewise the place and time of each element thereof.