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culture. The vast material has hitherto quite been neglected by Jain as well as other scholars here in India and abroad.
A scheme (Yojana ) of Jain Sahitya Nirmana has been formulated. A survey of the entire Jain Literature for the last 2,500 years contributed by Jains in Prakrit, Sanskrit, Apbhramsa, Hindi, Gujerati, Rajasthani, Kannada and Tamil will be recorded in the History of Jain Literature. The work is under preparation for the last three years and will cover four volumes of 3,000 royal octavo pages. It will be published in Hindi. It is hoped that the first part covering about 1,500 pages dealing with the Agamic Literature will go to the press by the beginning of 1957.
In its wake will come a History of the Development of Jain Philosophical Thought, a Dictionary of the Proper Names of Jain Literature and a Dictionary of Jain Philosophical Terms. The matter of the development of Jain cultural thoughts is being and will be attended to by several research scholars like the present.
In the end the Publishers thank the Press and the Secretary of the Jain Mission Society of Bangalore where this book has been printed for helping in the due publication of this work. It is hoped that the public and scholarly interest may be stimulated towards greater study of Jainology.
Amritsar 2nd November, 1956
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