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We owe him numerous editions of canonical texts besides his Die Lehre der Jainas, a unique survey of the Jaina doctrine as presented by the Agamas?. Although the work on the Agama is still in midstream, we feel that a certain shift of emphasis from the canonical literature in its narrowest sense to the exegetical literature is called for. Thanks to the efforts of scholars like Schubring we are now on fairly firm ground as the Agama is concerned and we should therefore not hesitate to embark on the critical study of the following period, i.e. of the period of early exegetical literature.
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An English translation (The Doctrine of the Jainas) was published in 1962 by Motilal Banarsidass.
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