Parshvanath Vidyapith Swarna Jayanti Granth

SR No.: 012051
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sagarmal Jain, Ashok Kumar Singh
Publisher: Parshwanath Shodhpith Varanasi
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 402
Language: Hindi, English
Classification: Smruti_Granth & Articles
File Size: 23 MB

Page 37

Presidential Address
Section : JAINA PURĀŅAS AND NARRATIVE LITERATURE
DR. B. K. KHADABADI
Learned Friends,
Let me, at the outset, express my sincere gratitude to the Executive Body of the All India Association of Prakrit and Jaina Studies, for their confidence extended to me for presiding over the deliberations of the Jaina Purānas and Narrative Literature Section of its first and historic Session held here under aegis of the P. V. Research Institute.
We are rather proud to assemble here on the premises of this P. V. Research Institute, which is the oldest to serve the cause of higher studies and research in the realms of Prakrit and Jainology and which, coincidentally, also happens to celebrate now its Golden Jubilee. Besides, we are equally proud to be in this historic city, which has been for centuries a unique centre of learning and pilgrimage, and the soil and surrounds of which have been rendered sacred and spiritually cultured by the movements and teachings of several great Indian saints and seers, including the revered Tirthankaras like Pārsvanātha and Mahāvīra, With this inspiring background and with your enthusiastic gathering for the maiden Session of this Conference, I feel assured of your full cooperation in discharging the duties of this office entrusted to me. .
It is the usual practice of the Sectional President to present in his address a bibliographic survey of publications coming out during a particular period and also make an appraisal of researches carried out in the concerned field. But I think, such survey is not desirable, for you all, as scholars interested in this field, are expected to know about such publications. Nor is it justifiably practicable to enter, at this hour, into such appraisal. Moreover it is the maiden session of this newly emerged Conference. Hence I propose to limit myself to setting critically a few desiderative tasks and prospects for consideration, choice and undertaking, and also to stressing over a word or two for the equipment
( 24 )