Jainalogy In Western Publications

SR No.: 269649
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kenji Watanabe
Publisher: Kenji Watanabe
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Language: English
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being from H. JACOBI's edition of the Ausgewählte Erzählungen in Māhārāshtri.
7.5. Metrics. Metrical criteria have been normally used when establishing critical editions of Jaina texts (cf. supra 6.).
Some monographs, though not bearing exclusively on Jain a usage, should not be overlooked:
1973: A. METTE, “Vedhas in Lalitavistara and Divyāvadāna: Beschreibungen des schönen Körpers in Sanskrit und Prakrit", WZKS 17, pp. 21-42 (especially 30–37).
1987: K.R. NORMAN, “The origin of the aryā metre", in Buddhist Philosophy and Culture: Essays in Honour of N. A. Jayawickrama, ed. D. J. KALUPAHANA and W. G. WEERARATNE, Colombo, pp. 203-14 (CP No. 74).
7.6.
Lexicography
Jaina lexicographical studies will derive considerable benefit from the publication, in India, of the Āgama sabdakośa (Word-Index of Angasuttāni), Vol. I: VĀCANĀ PRAMUKHA ĀCĀRYA TULASĪ, ed. YUVĀCĀRYA MAHĀPRAŠÑA, Ladnun 1980 (Jain Vishwa Bhārati). Much help is also derived from the abundant critical material with which the Jaina Agama Series volumes (Bombay 1968-) are provided.
Jaina lexicography, especially when dealing with Pk terms, has often been coupled with grammatical and etymological observations. In several cases, comparisons of Amg/JM terms with their Buddhist counterparts have proved fruitful, especially when an evaluation of semantic evolutions is necessary. Many technical terms still have to be investigated. The following short list only aims at indicating some of the main trends: all the stray lexicographical notes which are inserted in many papers cannot be quoted here.
Many remarks on vocabulary can be found in the editions of Pk texts quoted supra 6. They are numerous in W. B. BOLLÉE, Studien zum Sūyagada (see also the review by K. R. NORMAN, WZKS 25 (1981), pp. 201ff.). For