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No. 11 Late B. Devakumar Jain and his Jaina-Siddhanta-Bhavana- :
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as of the planets etc. Then there considerations have been discussed in detail at appropriate places.
The style points out that the book belong to
School The
contains an original thing-it is the life to come after death. The Hindi translation is not satisfactory for at places it has failed to bring out the meaning. The portion of the text with translation contains misprints.
The other book, if q is a very small book of about 109 verses in all divided into two parts (or q) one detailing the nature and prospects of a man as judged from his features and the other of the same theme but referred to women. These two branches of
fa are empirical in nature and therefore one cannot say with much confidence about their ultility and accuracy. Yet they cannot be summarily discarded
The third inorder of publication is जैनप्रतिमा - लेखसंग्रह, edited by Sri Kamta Pd Jaina. The editor has collected and edited the inscription as found on the Jaina images of Manpuri. Many of the inscriptions are very old. They contain references to many rulers big and small, many and 11. Some of them are complete and rest is incomplete. The editor has tried to fill up the gaps by giving explanatory notes as far as posible. However it is very diffi cult to reconstruct a continuous history out of them. The editor has given the discription of many places in his explanatory notes. He has also made references to the origin of the various castes among the Jaina eg. अमवाल, जैसवाल etc. This has enhanced the ultility of the book much. The printing is fair.
The fourth publication of the series is a book on Aurveda entitled
. It came out in 1942 and is edited and translated by Pt. Satyandhar Jaina Aurvedacharya Kavyatirtha. In the beginning of the book there are two introductory prefaces, one by Pt. Kanahiya Lal Jain of Kanpur and the other by Pt. K.B. Shastri and on behalf of the publisher, B. Nirmal Kumar Jain. The two prefaces contain much information. The first comprises things like the cause and the result of the disease according to the Aurveda theory, the difinition of the Aurveda Science, its different departments and essential features. It also discusses place of Aurveda in Jainism and the
