Sramana 2011 01

SR No.: 525075
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sundarshanlal Jain, Shreeprakash Pandey
Publisher: Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi
Publication Year: 2011
Total Pages: 172
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Sramana, & India
File Size: 15 MB

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साहित्य-सत्कार : 149
सम्बन्धित क्रियाओं का चिन्तन है। नवम अध्याय में मन्त्र-तन्त्र एवं स्वस्तिक का विवेचन है। वास्तु विज्ञान का विवेचन चैत्य-चैत्यालय के प्रसंग (पंचम अध्याय) में किया गया है। ग्रन्थ के प्रारम्भ में प्रो० सुदर्शन लाल जैन द्वारा १७ पृष्ठ की सम्पादकीय है जिसमें इन समस्त विषयों का सरल पद्धति से प्रतिपादन किया गया है। पूज्य, पूजक, पूजा आदि से सम्बन्धित प्रामाणिक एवं वैज्ञानिक जानकारी प्राप्त करने के लिए यह पुस्तक बहुत ही उपयोगी है। भाषा सरल एवं तर्कसंगत है। यथा प्रसंग आगम ग्रन्थों के प्रमाण दिये गए हैं। अतः यह पुस्तक हर दृष्टि से पठनीय एवं संग्रहणीय है।
डॉ० नवीन कुमार श्रीवास्तव A History of the Canonical Literature of Jainas Author- Prof. Hiralal Rasikdas Kapadia, Editor- Nagin J. Shah, PublicationPrakrit text Society Ahmedabad, Year 2010, Price- Rs. 320/-, Pages- 301. ‘A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas' by Prof. H.R. Kapadia, is a revised edition of the same book on the request of Seth Amritlal Kalidas Doshi. In revision here is rare space for amendments. There is mostly edition in the body of the text as also in foot notes. The first edition of this book was published in 1942.
The present title contains seven chapters in total excluding appendix and indexes. First chapter deals with the genesis of the Jaina scriptures where writer speaks of tripadi, Āgamas and the two different opinion with regard to their order of composition. Second chapter describes classification of the Āgamas in Śvetāmbara and Digambara sects, and third tells about 'Pustakarohana' (redaction) of the Jaina Agamas. Chapter four beautifully depicts loss of more than infinite dvādaśāngis and reasons assigned for the loss of Pūrvas by various scholars, where the fifth chapter speaks of the Āgamas available at present, their section and their subject matter. The sixth chapter elaborately speaks of all those works which explains the pure texts forming the Jaina canon. In the seventh chapter the author has given an evaluation by Occidental scholars from 1876-1903, about Jaina Literature.