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BOOK REVIEW
A. The three works named below are all published in 1972 by the L.D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad under the general editorship of the Director of the Institute, Pt. Dalsukh Malvania.
1. THE PHILOSOPHY OF SRI SVAMINARAYANA by Dr. Jayendrakumar Anandji Yajnik : Pages xvi+-183 : Price Rs. 30.00.
This work, accepted by the M. S. University of Baroda for the Ph.D. degree, deals with the theistic and moral teachings of Svaminarayana of the late 18th century, the saint who founded a sect which has a large following in Gujarat, specially among the common people. Seers and saints do not propound any systematised philosophy, for they are inspired by their intuitive inner guidance. It is for professional and technically trained philosophers to study their utterances, behaviour and manner of life and frame out of them principles with which a philosophical system may be built up-a system which the holy personages concerned perhaps followed, though of course, unconsciously. Yajnik has been successful in accomplishing this task with much care and labour.
2. HARSAVARDHANA'S ADHYATMABINDU with autocommentary, ed. by Muni Mitranand Vijayji and Dr. Nagin J. Shah : Pages 34+63 : Price Rs. 6.00.
It deals with an exposition, divided into four sections, of principles of Jaina philosophy, composed by an author conjecturally ascribed to the 15th-16th centuries A.D. The auto-commentary, however, covers only the first of the four sections. The text has been well-edited.
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