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No. lj Late B. Devakumar Jain and his Jaina-Siddhanta-Bhavana : 31 Shamasastry followed by the editor's preface and then the text itself. As written by Shamasastry, the work, 79E-FT, is a good descriptive catalogue of Sanskrit and Prakrit Manuscripts bearing Nos from 196 to 263 and 54 to 78 about 54 mss in all." All the manuscripts belong to the Jaina Oriental Library. The editor's prelace speaks of everything that led to the publication-a pioneer thing so far as the Digambar Jainas are concerned.
The work is a collection of such portions of works of different authors as help in their identification. It is a matter of great regret that many of the authors of the days of yore did not speak anything about themselves. This stands much in the way of assessing the merits of the works themselves and we fail to reconstruct our history uninterrupted The fact helps us much that way. The manuscripts included in the work include various branches of lear. ning, e.g. philosophy, medicine, Jyotish etc.
It is a very thoroughly edited book. The value is much enhanced because of the annotations here and there and the index. The printing is fair.
