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
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Dr. Nakamura and Yotak ojihara of Tokiyo University worked on the comparative study of Jainism and Budhism. Atsush uro worked on the Vitarāgastuti of Hemacandra, pravacanasāra, Pañácstikāya, and Sarvadarśana Sangraha and worked on Karma doctrine in Jainism (1961-Progress of prakrit aud Jain studies"--Presidentaial address of Dr. Nathmal Tatia in AIOC, Varanasi, 19 8).
Research in Jainism is also being carried out in Soviet Union. Marget B. D. and Tatyana K. of Leningrad University and Guseva of Moscow University are the leading scholars in the field. prof Aigour S. of the institute of oriental Studies worked on the Dhurtakhyana.
Jainism is also becoming popular among the American scholars. Dr. Padamanābha Jaini in the California University is a very scholar of Jainism and Budhism. New York, Honololo, Fildelphia and other Universities became the centre for Jain Studies. Dr. Dulichandra Jain, Muni Sushil Kumarji and Citrabhanuji are the pioneers of Jain studies in U. S. A.
This is a short sketch of Prākrit and Jain studies going on in India and abroad. So many works and scholars may have been left out in the paper. I have given a picture only just to manifest that during the last century so mush work has been done in the field, but in the view of vast extent of Prakrit literature what remains to be done is more significant. Innumberable Prakrit works dealing with a variety of subjects are still lying in unsatisfactory conditions in various Jaina Grantha Bhandaras. It is the duty of Präkrit lovers to bring these works to light and publish their critical editions. In order to make them excessable to the common people, they should be translated into regional languages and English and other foreign languages. The historical and cultural material of these works should be studied with a view to throw more and more light on India's past. Secondly, loud.ble efforts should be made to establish the independent Depatments of Prakrit and Jain studies in the Universities and colleges. The Haryana Government has recently announced the Mahāvir chair to be established in the Kurukshetra University. Likewise, the existant Departments of Prakrit and Jain studies should be protected in all respects. References :
1. Wien, 1881. 2. Extra number of the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal,
Asiatic Society, Vol. xvi, Bombay, 1883 :Vol. xvii, Bombay, 1887, R. A, S, Bombay, 1894.