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tion given in his honour the other day, is not entirely a stran, ger to India as at the beginning of his career just forty years ago he came on a literary tour to this country and accompanied the famous Sanskritist Dr. Buhler, who was then in the Bombay Erlucational Service, to Jessalmir and other centres of Jain learning. Since then he has deeply studied Jain literature and religion and been mainly instrumental in obtaining recognition in Europe and America for Jainism as an ancient and important religious system quite independent of Buddhism, whose mere offshoot it was long and erroneously supposed to be. His researches in this religion have really marked an epoch in Oriental scholarship and his translation of some of its chief bonks in Max Muller's Sacred Books of the East series, has opened quite a new field of inquiry for students of comparative religion. This English translation was the first in any Western language and naturally was a work of great difficulty, The Indian Jains whilst fully appreciating the merits of these pioneer labours, had, we believe, some reason to be dissatisfied with parts of this translation from which many of their own indigenous scholars or pandits differ. The latter have now an excellent opportunity of laying their views personally before the learned savant who too should be glad to interchange views with these useful repositories of traditioual learning.
The main object of Dr. Jacobi's visit is to deliver a course of lectures on Indian Rhetoric befo e the University of Calcutta which has specially invited him for tho purpose. and he is pro• ceeding there after a short stay in Bombay But he intends to make a longer stay in Boinbay when he returns from Bengal after a few weeks and arrangement can then be made for prirate discussion with the Jain pandits as well as popular lectures on the results of his studies. The Jain bhandars or mediaval libraries of their literature, hitherto interned and very jea. lously married from the eye of foreigners, have special attracrious to: scholars like Dr. Jacobi and as the Jains have advan cai and soin more enlightened of recent years they may be
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| SR No. | 533342 |
| Book Title | Jain Dharm Prakash 1913 Pustak 029 Ank 10 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Jain Dharm Prasarak Sabha |
| Publisher | Jain Dharm Prasarak Sabha |
| Publication Year | 1913 |
| Total Pages | 36 |
| Language | Gujarati, Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Jain Dharm Prakash, & India |
| File Size | 3 MB |