Comparative Study Of Jaina Theories Of Reality And Knowledge

Author(s): Y J Padmarajaiah
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Vikas Mandal

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OPINIONS
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Expressing the same opinion in a slightly variant form and with some additions, on other occasion, the same great authority on Indian Philosophy observes :
“Padmarajiah has been carrying researches, at Oxford, in an important branch of Comparative Philosophy in association with the allied trends of Indian and Western thought. He was, in the course of his studies, with me for about three months during the summer of 1949 when he read with me some of the most abstruse texts and I devoted no less than three or four hours a day in elucidating the discussing problems of his work. He is a very intelligent student having a full grasp of his materials. ......he will be able to produce a really effective work on a relatively unexplored subject in the field of comparative philosophy under his present Supervisor, Dr. F. W. Thomas.”
Sd/- S. N. DASGUPTA
Dr. A. L. Basham, B. A. (Lond.), Ph. D. (Lond.), Reader in Indian History in the University of London, and the author of a well-known work on Ājivikism as well as of the recent one : The Glory that was Ind, sponsoring Dr. Y. J. Padmarajiah's work : A Comparative Study of the Jaina Theories of Reality and Knowledge (for which Oxford University awarded to the candidate the degree of Doctor of Philosophy) to one of the foremost publishing concerns in England writes :
SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL &
AFRICAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
LONDON, W. C. 1 31st MARCH 1955
Dear Doctor,
The enclosed thesis is a work of major importance in the field of Indian Philosophy and I would strongly recommend