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The present work is the third volume in the series of Cyclopaedia of Jainism proposed to be published on behalf of Late Shri Mohan Lal Banthia. The first volume was the Cyclopaedia of Lesya and the second volume was the cyclopaedia of Kriya. Both these volumes proved to be the complete cyclopaedia of two highly technical subjects of Jain Philosophy. Now, this third volume, which is an exhaustive collection of material related to the life of Bhagawan Mahavira whose birth-name was Vardhamana.
The learned compilers of this cyclopaedie work. Late Shri Mohan Lal Banthia and Shrichand Choraria have taken pains to collect all the available material concerning the life of Bhagawan Mahavira from all literary sourcesthe Jain canons, the commentaries on the Jain canons, the later non-canonical Prakrit and Sanskrit work, the Buddhist Pali texts, as well as other available sources.
The present work is only the first part of the volume, which will be published in three parts. The decimal system used for classification of topic signifies a scientific approach in topical classification and makes it easy to find out any sub-topic.
it is definitely an unique work on the life of Bhagawan Mahavira elucidating simultaneously all the aspects including those of historical significance. The combated deserve congratulations for their hard labour. The cyclopaedie publications in the series will become a valuable repository of Jain learnings for ages to come.
Muni Shri Mahendra Kumar Deciple of Acharya Sri Tulsi
Jain Education International 2010_03
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