Jain Journal 2000 10

SR No.: 520140
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 70
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 4 MB

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BOOK REVIEW
Studies in Jainism--published by the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Gol Park, Calcutta, 1997, pp. 171, Price Rs. 75.00.
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The present study is a collection of twelve articles of varied interest concerning Jainism. All the articles are written by persons who are authorities on Jainism. It contains the history and philosophy of Jainism including its ethics. Literature of Jainism is written by Hiralal Jain. A comparative study between Brahmanic and Śramanic Cultures is written by Sagar Mal Jain.
All the articles printed in this book are worth reading and contain all that is needed for Jainism. The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture is to be congratulated for printing such a nice collection of articles on Jainism. This book can be recommended for the reading public.
Satya Ranjan Banerjee
Nagin J. Shah (ed.). Jaina Theory of Multiple Facets of Reality and Truth. Motilal Banarsidass Publisher Private Limited & Bhogilal Leherchand Institute of Indology, Delhi, 2000. Pages xvi + 134 + index. Rs. 200.
The title under review is a collection of articles originally presented at a seminar on Jain Logic and Epistemology held in 1990. To these have been added two more by K.C. Bhattacharya and Atsushi Uno which were published earlier. Altogether eleven articles along with an introduction contributed by the editor explore several aspects of anekäntaväda or syādväda.
Dr. Shah in his introduction gives a brief overview of the central philosophy of Jainism. He believes that even non-Jain thinkers like Sāyaṇācārya accepted the possibility of the co-existence of being and non-being. He cites a sentence from Sayana's commentary on the Rgveda (10.129.1) in support of his contention. He also detects the idea of such a co-existence inhering in some passages in the Upanisads (e.g., Isa, 5; Katha, 2.20; Praśna, 2.5).
Shah finds fault with the interpretation of the term, syat as 'may