Jain Journal 1991 07

SR No.: 520103
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 1991
Total Pages: 24
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 2 MB

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JULY, 1991
Singh on Jaina Theory of Measurement and Transfinite Numbers', of N. L. Jain on "Jaina Theory of Skandhas or Molecules'.
Arvind Sharma is an Indian settled in Australia. He is Head of the Department of Religious Studies in the University of Sydney. His three articles on 'Christianity & Jainism', "Relationship of Jaina Epistemology to its Ontology and Soteriology' and 'An Advaitic Criticism of Jainism" are sui generis. In this connection, it is refreshing to find a Muslim, Mohd. Aquique, writing about 'Mithila : The Heart of Jainism'.
In thus writing about Foreign and non-Jaina contibutors to the Jain Journal, we cannot lose sight of the numerous stories culled from Jaina folk-lore by the Editor himself. The stories are animated by pencil sketches of the heroes and heroines. Seriatim the stories are 'Bahubali', 'Nilanjana', 'Revati', 'Ripupratisatru'.
Every year, the April issue is dedicated to Mahavir Jayanti.
1981 contains five articles on Bahubali and Sravana Belgola; April, 1987 issue contains six articles on Gautama Ganadhar; and April, 1990 issue contains reprints from articles written by
J. L. Jaini, Brahmachari Shital Prasad, Ajit Prasada, Virchand R. Gandhi and Puran Chand Nahar who were pioneers in the field and had projected Jainism in the right perspective to the world abroad.
One feature that distinguishes Jain Journal from all other magazines on Jainism is that it is richly illustrated. Every issue contains photographs of Jaina colossuses, images, temples and places of pilgrimage. Mention may be made of the sheer elegance and purity of a Jaina nun as captured in a painting of a European artist of the past era of East India Company (XIII, 4).
In thus speaking of the many excellences of the Jain Journal, I am pained to find that it is one-man's show. What after Lalwani ? "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
in 1938 Dr. Bimal Chandra Law observed : "The Jains should found a society for the publication of important texts and commen