Progress of Prakrit and Jaina Studies

SR No.: 011087
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bhogilal J Sandesara
Publisher: Jain Cultural Research Society
Total Pages: 55
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 3 MB

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This appears to be an incomplete list of publications without any definite method, and has very limited value for a student.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the manuscripts at Jaisalmer prepared by Muni Punyavijayaji is being printed under the ✔auspices of the Jaina Svetambara Conference of Bombay, and should be out very soon. It is a complete list of all the palmleaf manuscripts and most of the paper manuscripts. A Catalogue of about 20,000 manuscripts preserved in the Hemacandrācārya Jñanamandira at Patan has been prepared by the same scholar, and is being printed along with all the colophons. A Catalogue of the famous Santinatha Bhānḍāra at Cambay prepared by Punyavijayaji has been taken up for publication in the Gaekwad's Oriental Series. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Jaina manuscripts in the library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal has been prepared by Dr. Ajitranjan Bhattacharyya. Its first volume is out and the second volume is likely to be published in near future.
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Vishveshvarananda Vedic Research Institute, Hoshiarpur, has completed and published during the period under review a twovolume tabular Classified Catalogue of 8,360 manuscripts belonging to it. This Catalogue registers 267 Jaina works, 58 of them being in Sanskrit and 209 in Hindi. The Rajasthan Research Institute has published the first volume of its Catalogue of Manuscripts (Jodhpur, 1959). Out of a total of 4,868 manuscripts it registers 1,236 works by different Jaina writers in Sanskrit, Präkrit, and Gujarati-Rajasthānī. Dr. Klaus Brühn had written a bibliographical paper on Jaina studies in Germany (Voice of Ahimsa, VI. 10, October 1956), a Gujarāti translation of which has been prepared by Dr. A. N. Jani (Jaina Yuga, January 1959).
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This is a record of the work carried out in the field of Prakrit and Jainism during the last two years, and I crave your indulgence if I have left out inadvertently any notable work.