Sambodhi 1993 Vol 18

SR No.: 520768
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J B Shah, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 172
Language: English, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Sambodhi, & India
File Size: 17 MB

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SAMBODHI but after serving a few years there he returned to his own Ruia College at Bombay and worked there till he retired in 1968. It was during these years at Bombay that he wrote his Jaina Agama-sahitya mem Bhāratiya Samaja (1965), Jaina Sahitya kā Brhe Itihāsa (1966). In 1970 he delivered a series of lectures in the L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad, which appeared in the form a book entitled Prākrta Jaina Kathā Sāhitya (1971). The same year he was invited by the University of Kiel (West Germany) where he worked as research scholar for four years (1970-74), on the Vasudevahindi, and came in contact with distinguished scholars like Ludwig Alsdorf, D. Schlingloff K. Bruhn and others, and delivered lectures in South Asian Institute at Heidelberg, in Orientalistic Seminar at the University of Freiburg, in the Institute of Oriental Languages at the Stockholm University, Sweden, and in the School of Oriental and African Studies the University of London. In 1980 he went to Brazil to deliver lectures on Indian philosophy at Sao Paulo. From there he went to U. S.A. and delivered lectures in the University of California, Berkeley, University of Wisconsin, Madison, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and also in New York and Toronto, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, El Salvador University and in Buenes Aires, Argentina. In 1981 he published his 'Prakrit Narrative Literature'. His another great work of 700 pages, 'History and Development of Prakrit Literature' is in press. Even in 1991, his two works viz., the 'Jain way of Life' and 'Studies in Early Jainism' have been published. He was awarded the Prakrit Jñanabhāratī award from Bangalore in 1990 and the Ahimsa International Deputymal Jain Memorial Award from Delhi in 1991. His published books number 39 and articles 30 in English, besides numerous articles in outstanding Hindi magazines and journals. N. M. K. Courtesy : 'Editor's Note' by N. M. Bhattacharya in Jainism and Prakrit in Ancient and Medieval India', New Delhi, 1994.
श्रद्धांजलि डॉ. जगदीशचन्द्र जैन से मुझे सर्व प्रथम परिचय तब हुआ जब मैं शान्तिनिकेतन पढने गया था। वहाँ वे बनारस युनिवर्सिटीसे एम.ए. करके विशेष अध्ययन के लिए आये थे । उसी अरसे में उनकी नियुक्ति बम्बई में जैन प्रकाश के हिन्दी विभाग के संपादक के पद पर हुई । मैं भी अपना अभ्यास पूर्ण करके बम्बई में “जैन प्रकाश की ऑफिसमें नियुक्त हुआ, और वहाँ फिरसे मेरा जगदीशचन्द्रजी से मिलन हुआ । बाद में तो वे बम्बई की खालसा कॉलेजमें हिन्दी के प्राध्यापक के नाते नियुक्त हुए । ततः पश्चात् वे जर्मनीकी कोल युनिवर्सिटी में प्राध्यापक के नाते नियुक्त हुए । उन्होंने जैन साहित्यमें, विशेषतः कथा साहित्य में खास तौर पर अध्ययन किया और अनेक प्राचीन कथाग्रंथ संपादित और प्रकाशित किये । उन्होंने जैन प्राकृत कथा-साहित्य के विषय में भी अनेक ग्रंथ लिखे है, और वे हिन्दी एवं अंग्रेजीमें प्रसिद्ध हुए है । उनकी मृत्यु से जैन साहित्य के क्षेत्र में जो क्षति हुई है उसकी पूर्ति होना संभवित नहीं है । उनके आदरार्थ कलकत्ता युनिवर्सिटी के प्राध्यापक डॉ. एन. एन. भट्टाचार्यने 'जैनीझम् एण्ड प्राकृत इन एंश्यण्ट एण्ड मिडिएवलं इण्डिया नामका अभिनन्दत ग्रंथ संपादित किया है, जो इस वेष दिल्ही से उनके स्वर्गवास के कुछ महीनों पूर्व प्रकाशित हुआ है ।
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