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BOOK REVIEW
AGAM AUR TRIPITAK: EK ANUSILAN (Agam and Tripitak : A Study in Hindi) Vol. I : History and Tradition : Muni Nagraj : Jain Svetambar Terapanthi Mahasabha, Calcutta, 1969 : Pages kha+39+ 767+12. Price Rs. 25.00.
In his Āgam aur Tripitak Muni Sri Nagraj has produced a veritable landmark in the field of Jainological and Buddhistic researches. It is a product of tremendous, prolonged and concentrated effort. He has earned for himself and for all his collaborators the gratitude of all those interested in Jainological and Buddhistic studies to-day and of the generations to come.
The striking parallelism of these two religious orders in their traditions, doctrines and disciplines has long drawn the attention of scholars
-Eastern as well as Western, so far so that some early scholars of the modern times mistook these two originally distinct disciplines as but two diversions of the same order. Happily this confusion has now completely been dispelled.
Numerous comparative references are scattered over the entire field of Jainological and Buddhistic studies. In fact, hardly any important writer in these subjects has been able to check the temptation at comparison on some aspect or other. But as to any systematic comparative studies of the original authoritarian scriptures, this without doubt is the first.
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