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Paper Published in the Pt.Malvania Felicitation Volume, Varanasi 1991. There could have been also produced some such exegetical works in Apabhramsa, old Hindi and old Rajasthānī. But I have no knowledge of their existence. Walthar Schubring. The Doctrine of the Jainas, Delhi, 1962, p.83, f. n. 5. Ibid., p.83, s. n. 3. Ibid., p.84, f. n. 3. Vidc “Jaina Exegetical Literature and the History of the Jaina canon", in Mahāvīra and His Teachings, Bombay 1977. Alsdorf and his team of scholars are said to have been trying to do it in Hamburg. Vide Alsdorf, "Jaina Exegetical Literatura", p.8. (i) Last year when I intended comparatively to refer in respect of the “Cilatiputra Kathānaka”, to all these four types of commentaries on the Avassaya. I had to borrow, with difficulty, the Visesa Avasyaka-bhasya Volumes from the Rajaram College Library, Kolhapur. And when I sat for my job with all the works, the uncritical and intermingled texts, with neither tables of contents nor indexes of any kind, tired me for days together untill I received a reminder from Kolhapur to send back the borrowed Volumes. (ii) At the same time I cannot fail deeply to appriciate the generous lending hand of the rich Rajaram College Library, which I many a time hi je availed.
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