Jainendra Siddhanta kosha Part 1

SR No.: 016008
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jinendra Varni
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 2003
Total Pages: 506
Language: Prakrit, Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Dictionary & Dictionary
File Size: 18 MB

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Tha Taüge ví jaina literature and the specialised topics covered therein are pretty vast. Naturally a need is felt for topical source books, the excellent specimens of which we have in the Lesya-kośa (Calcutta 1966) and Kriya-kośa (Calcutta 1969) by Shri MOHANLAL BANTHIA and Shri SHRICHAND CHORADIA. They are exhaustive monographs with the topics arranged in a definite pattern.
A Dictionry of Prakrit Proper Names is in the press compiled at the L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad,
It is in the same line of the publications, noted above, that the Jainendra Siddhanta Kośa Part I, is presented here as No. 38 of the Sanskrit Series of the Jñanpith Mārtidevi Jaina Granthamala It is compiled by Kshu. JiNENDRA VARNI. Though trail in body and indifferent in health VARNIJI is a prodigy of learning; and his dedication to svadhyaya highly exemplary. The Kośa has grown out of his studies of important Jaina works like the Dhavala etc., extending over the last twenty years. It is a source book of topics (alphabetically arranged) drawn fiom a large number of Jain a texts dealing with drauya-, karanacarana,, and prathama-anuyoga. The range of works consulted can be seen from the Samketa sūCI. Extracts from the ba-ic sources are given, so also their Hindi translations, with nece ssary references. There are added many important tables and charts which give the required détails at a glance. For VARNIJI all this is a labour of love and devotion to study; and he has given + scholars a valuable source book of Jaina studies. The academic dignity of the Granthamala is really heightened by this publication. The General Editors are highly obliged to Kshu. JINENDRA VARNIJI for kindly placing this scholorly work at their disposal for publi. cation in the Granthamala.
The Kosas, listed above, are part attempts, and they do not cover the whole range of Jainological studies. Some of them may be having their linitations, if not defects. This is inevitable in all such individual efforts and that too at the early stages of Jainological studies which are still in their infancy. It is these and such other attempts, I am sure, will one day contribute their share to the institutionalised compilation of the Encyclopaedia of Jainism, something on the lines of the Encyclopaedia of Buddhism published by the Government of Ceylon.
Words are inadequate to express our sense of gratefulness to Shriman SAHU SHANTI PRASADAJI and his enlightened wife Smt, RAMA JAIN. Their generosity in the cause of the neglected branches of Indian learning is unbounded; but for their patronage such works could never have seen the light of day. The scholars will ever remain obliged to them for their academic idealism in financing such learned works which have hardly any sale.
It was very kind of Kshu. VARANIJI that he fully cooperated with the General Editors in fixing up the format and typography of the Kosa. Our special thanks are due to Shri L.C. Jain who took personal interest in this work by securing special types etc. Dr. GOKUL CHANDRA JAIN helped us in various ways by being on the spot where this work was printed. The Sanmati Mudranalaya has really earned a feather in its cap by carefully printing this complicated work,
-H. L. Jain
-A. N. Upadhye Mahavira Jayanti April 19, 1970