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आचाराङ्ग
To : The Seminar Organizers, Jināgamõ ki Mülabhāṣā par Vidvatsamgosthi, c/o Prakrit Jain Vidya Vikas Fund, 375 Saraswati Nagar, Ahmedabad.
SOAS, LONDON
20-4-97
Thank you for informing me of the seminar on the Original Language of the Jain Canonical Texts that is scheduled to take place shortly in Ahmedabad. Yor are to be congratulated on the selection and range of topics, and on the timing of the conference at this important juncture in Jain Studies.
My colleagues and I hope that, by subsequent publication of the proceedings, it will encourage and facilitate more widespread study, publication, and discussion of the primary manuscript sources. We would also wish to convey our congratulations to Dr. K. R. Chandra on the appearance of his stimulating re-appraisal of the linguistic form of the text of Acārārga.
J. C. Wright Professor of Sanskrit in the Univ. of London
School of Oriental and African Studies
6, Huttles Green, Shepreth,
Royston, Herts,
28/5/97 Dear Dr Chandra,
Thank you for your letter of 15/5/97. I am delighted to hear that the Seminar on the subject of The Original Language of the Jain Canonical Texts was so successful
I was interested to hear the outcome of your deliberations. Tinink it is very likely that Ardha-māgadhi was the original language of the Jināgama or, since the language of the original Jināgama was presumably earlier than the Ardha-māgadhi we possess now, perhaps we should call it Old Ardha-māgadhi. I believe that this
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