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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awarded Ph.D. Degrees on the Apabhramsa literature by the University of Delhi and Nagpur respectively. Harivamsa Kochada's thesis has already been published and the other is to be published by the Bhāratiya Jñānapitha. On the works of Kundakundāchārya, Dr. Lalbahadur Shastri got Ph.D. From the Agara University. I am also making a critical study of the Sūyagadanga and Bhagavati Ārādhanā of Shivārya. A number of other scholars are working in the field, but I could not get the detailed information from them.
Some others works may also be mentioned here, e.g. Life in ancient India as depicted in Jaina Āgamas by Dr. Jagdeeshchand Jain, Jainagaman men Nāri Jivan by Dr. Komalchand Jain (Benaras, 1967), History of the Canonical literature of the Jainas and Paiyabhāsão ane sāhitya by Hiralal R. Kapadiya (Bombay, 1941), Prākrit sāhitya kā itihās by Dr. Jagdeeshachand Jain (Benaras, 1961), Präkrit bhāsā aur sāhityä kā ālocanät maka itibās by Dr. Nemichand Shastri, etc. The present author submitted a thesis entitled Jainism in Buddhist literature" to the Vidyodaya University of Ceylan for the degree of Ph.D. which was approved in 1966 and published in 1972. He also edited the Candappahacariu (1985) of Yasahkirti
Dhammaparikkha of Ācārya Harishena (1990) and also the Sambohapañcāsiyā and Vayakahā.
· 28. Prākrit studies under the University and Research Institutes
Very few Universities and Research Institutes conduct the Prākrit studies independently. A survey of Prākrit studies was made by the L. D. Institute of Indology which found that no University has an independent Prākrit Department. At some places it is combined with the Hindi or Sanskrit departments and at some other places it is runing with Pāli or Indological studies. As a result, the Prākrit studies suffer a lot. The Sair purnanand Sanskrit University of Varanasi has of course now the independent Department for Prākrit and Jainology. Kendriya Lal Bahadur Shastri Sanskrit Sansthan is also runing the Jainology Department.
Recently the Jain Vishva Bharati Institute, Ladnun have been notified as Dcemcd University under section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 and this institute has indeed started some independent P.G. courses in the Prākrit and Jain studied.
The Government of Bihar deserves congratulations for providing the independent Research centres for Sanskrit. Pāli and Prākrit. The Institute for Research in Präkrit, Jainology and Ahimsa founded at Vaishali, the birth place of Mahāvira, in 1953 under the directorship of Dr. Hiralal Jain, a great authority on Sanskrit, Pāli and Prākrit