Concept of Matter in Jaina Philosophy

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: P V Research Institute Varanasi

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Publisher's Note We feel immense pleasure indeed in presenting this valuable work—'The Concept of Matter in Jaina Philosophy' by Dr. J. C. Sikdar in the hands of the scholars. It is also a matter of honour for us that on this work the author was awarded D. Litt Degree by Jabalpur University, Jabalpur.
Jaina Ācāryas have contributed to almost all the branches ofthe knowledge including Physical sciences also but unfortunately this aspect remained unexplored. No serious attempt has been made by scholars in this specific field. It is gratifying that this subject is for the first time exhaustively dealt by Dr. J. C. Sikdar. The beauty of this work lies in its searching analysis and critical and comparative approach to various problems related to the concept of Matter in Indian thought-philosophical as well as scientific. Through this work author has really made a valuable contribution to Indian Scientific thought in general and Jainism in particular. We hope that this work will serve as a landmark and will succeed in arousing the interest of the scholars in the field.
We are extremely grateful to Dr. J. C. Sikdar for allowing P. V. Research Institute to publish this work.
We express our deep sense of gratefulness to Sadhvi śre Mrgāvati ŚrIJI for arranging a grant of Rupees Seven thousand for publication of this work in the memory of Pūjya Sadhvijı Sri Silavatlji Mahārāja Sāhiba.
We are thankful to Dr. Arun Pratap Singh, then Research Associate, P. V. Research Institute and other academic staff of the Institute who have helped in one way or the other in the publication of this work.
We are also thankful to Sri Mahesh Kumar of Divine Printers who has been very instrumental in proof-reading and printing of the book. B. N. Jain
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Director P. V. Research Institute, I. T. I. Road, Varanasi.