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the recent zone of Ph. D. Studies, we find that prototypical trends and approaches rather dishearten us though the number of subjects or topics covered is gratifying. If we pass our eyes over the informative list of Ph. D. dissertations (written or being written) in our contextual range of the Jaina Purānas itself (Higher Education and Research in Prakrits and Jainology, Sarikāya Patrikā I, Śramaņavidyā, Vol. I, Varanasi 1983), we find that several studies of the individual (Laghu) Purāņas prototypically rotate over the Tulasī Rāmāyaṇa for comparision. What I mean by bringing out such feature at this context is that in this very range, fresh tracts or aspects could have been certainly explored for worthy harvest. Finally I hope, you will take these words, some of them signifying bitter truth, as coming from the heart of an elder colleague and not from the mouth of a pretending cynic.
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