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SVASTI Essays in Honour of Prof. Hampa Nagarajaiah
inscriptions of Hombuja, and Samtararu: omdu adhyayana, 1997, about the royal dynasty whose capital Hombuja was).
During his long tenure as president of the Kannada Sahitya Pariṣattu, this venerable organization brought out many valuable editions of Old Kannada texts, Jaina and nonJaina. Also the Sanskrit Mahāpurāṇa of Jinasena and Gunabhadra was reissued, with its Kannada translation by the late Pt. A. Shanthiraja Sastry, for its seminal importance also for Jaina literature in Kannada, which benefitted many researchers in the field. Later Hampana crossed linguistic boundaries linguistic boundaries with his edition of the Tattvārthasūtrānugata karṇāta laghuvṛtti (1994), an Old Kannada commentary on the best-known Jaina philosophical text in Sanskrit.
In recent years Hampană has ventured to present some of his findings to a larger audience through the medium of English. This is a double struggle, firstly with the medium of this foreign language, and secondly because the new target audience' is largely unfamiliar with the richness of, and the state of knowledge in Karnatakan scholarly circles about, the materials that form the basis of Hampana's work.
Hampana was not my teacher in a formal sense, but he played a positive role in my own early career in Kannada studies by his encouraging attitude and his gladness to share information. On this occasion of Hampana's 75th birthday, one naturally rejoices at seeing him still intellectually productive; we should hope that he will be among us for many more years to come, and that the younger generations of scholars will continue to have opportunities to benefit from his accumulated knowledge.
| SR No. | 007006 |
| Book Title | Svasti |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Nalini Balbir |
| Publisher | K S Muddappa Smaraka Trust |
| Publication Year | 2010 |
| Total Pages | 446 |
| Language | English, Hindi |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 16 MB |