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Where can I find a critical edition of the Sthananga Sutra?

One of the go-to critical editions of the Sthānāṅga Sūtra appears in the Jaina Granthamālā series (no. 27), edited by Pandit Hiralal Jain and originally published in Bombay in 1926. This landmark version collates key Śvetāmbara manuscripts—drawn from repositories in Shravanabelagola, Patan and Jaipur—and was printed at the Nirṇaya Sāgar Press. A reprint came out in the early 1970s under the Jain Vishva Bhāratī imprint at Ladnun, making it a little easier to handle for modern readers.

For anyone more digitally inclined, the Muktabodha Digital Library hosts high-resolution scans of that very edition. A quick search in their Jain collection will bring it up, free of charge. Archive.org also carries a PDF mirror, though pagination sometimes varies.

Physical copies turn up in a handful of specialized collections:
• Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (Pune)
• Oriental Manuscripts Library (Madras)
• Jain Vishva Bhāratī (Ladnun)
• SOAS Special Collections (London)

University interlibrary loan services often know how to snag microform or scanned copies from these centers—worth a try if you’re not popping over to India or the U.K.

A more recent scholarly stab was published in 1988 by the Jaina Sabhā of Jaipur. It offers a fresh collation alongside an English synopsis of each chapter, reflecting a bit of today’s hermeneutical trends in Jain studies. That Jaipur edition can still be hunted down via antiquarian booksellers or requested through major South Asian studies libraries.

Whether leafing through the Bombay-era paperback, scrolling through Muktabodha’s TIFFs, or paging through Jaipur’s bilingual version, these editions together carry the weight of nearly a century’s critical scrutiny—just the toolkit needed for taking the Sthānāṅga Sūtra apart, verse by verse.