Tulsi Prajna 1992 07

SR No.: 524571
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 154
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 8 MB

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TULSI-PRAJNA, July-Sept., 1992
lying unpublished in the Bhaṇḍāras which deserve to be published. 27. Modern Researches in Prakrit and Apabbra sa
The scholars in oriental studies now turned to find out the subjects from Prakrit and Apabhraṁśa literature. As a result, a number of scholars have been even awarded Ph. D. and D. Litt. degrees by the different Universities. I may mention here a few of
them.
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Dr. Hiralal Jain, an eminent scholar in Prakrit and Apabhraṁśa, was awarded the D. Litt. degree by the Nagpur University in 1944 on the Apabhramśa studies. "The study of Prakrit Mahākāvyas in relation to cognate Sanskrit literature" was a subject of Dr. Ramji Upadhyaya for his degree of Ph.D. which was approved by the University of Allahabad in 1945. Prakrit aura Apabhraṁśa: Unakā dingala sahitya para prabhāva" was a subject for Ph.D. Degree which was approved by the Rajasthan University and awarded to Dr. Govardhanadas Sharma, in 1962. Prof Rajarama Jain got his Ph.D. on Svayambhu from the Bihar University. Dr. Nemichand Shastri was awarded Ph.D. Degree on "Haribhadrasūri ki kathāon kā samalocanatmaka adhyayana" by the same University. Acārāngasūtra (Dr. Paramesthidas Jain) and Uttarādhyayana (Dr. Sudarshanlal Jain) are approved for the Ph.D. Degrees by the University of Sagar and BHU. respectively. Dr Vimala prakash Jain has edited Jambūsāmi Cariu, an Apabhraṁśa Epic dated V. S. 1076 of Veer Kavi from five old MSS. with a complete Hindi translation, Sanskrit-gloss and complete word index which is published by the Bharatiya Jnanapitha, Kashi. The present work has been approved for the award of Ph.D. Degree by the University of Jabalpur. He is also editing another work "Jambūsāmi ajjhayana" which is to be published by the Prakrit Text Society. He has also reported me that he was making a comparative studies in the origin and development to Indian Narrative literature in Sanskrit, Pāli, Prakrit and Apabhraṁśa language for the D. Litt. degree of the University of Jabalpur. Another work under him is to work on the compilation of the Encyclopaedia of Indian stories in Sanskrit, Pāli, Prakrit and Apabhraṁśa up to the 15th century A.D.
Dr. R.S. Tripathi from the Aligarh University has contributed a work "Mahābhāṣyaon men Präkrit, Apabhraṁśa sambandhi Samagri" which is published in the Abhinava Bharati, Vol. 1. 1959. Dr. P. Ananda from the same University is working on the Gathasaptaśati : a critical introduction to and an exhaustive commentary thereon. Dr. Harivamsa Kochada and Dr. Devendra Kumar Jain have been