Contribution of Jainas to Sanskrit and Prakrit Literature

Author(s): Vasantkumar Bhatt, Jitendra B Shah, Dinanath Sharma
Publisher: Kasturbhai Lalbhai Smarak Nidhi Ahmedabad

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medial non-aspirate consonants. They are more archaic from this point of view. Dr. Chandra picked up some such forms and selected for his edition. Some other forms like infinitive, absolutive, past tense, present participles etc. were also made subject of his study.
These were the abilities that Dr. Chandra deserved a felicitation volume. It was on the verge of completion but all of a sudden his heart failed and he passed away. So this volume is now converted to Commemoration volume. We are extremely aggrieved with this event, but such events are beyond the reach of human being.
The articles of this volume are mainly oriented to the contribution of Jainas to Sanskrit literature, for Jainas have written a .good deal of literature covering various subjects.
In preparing this volume many agencies and personalities have been instrumental, without whose help it could not have been possible for us to prepare this volume. We express our gratitude to all those scholars who have contributed their scholarly articles. We are thankful to Shri Chandmalji Shah, Surat who donated Rs. 5001/-. Shri S. L. Jain, Ahmedabad, Shri Rajendra Kumar, Chennai, Shri Babulal, Chennai, Shri C. B. Kothari, Chennai, Shri Kamal Modi, Shri Ramanlal, Chennai, Shri Pravin Kumar, Chennai, Shri C. R. Jain, Chennai, Shri Ramesh Bhandari, Chennai, Shri Champalal Jain, Chennai deserve our vote of thanks who donated Rs. 2000/- each in this expedition. Our friends Prof. Kanajibhai Patel, Shri Arjun Singh, Dr. Jitendra B. Shah, Smt. Vyas, Datta, Smt. Hetal Pandya, Dr. Jagruti Pandya, Smt. Sangita P. Desai, Dr. Parul Mankad, Dr. Geeta Mehta, Bharati Shelat contributed Rs. 500/- each. Smt. Aruna Lattha, Dr. Priti Mehta and Dr. Shobhana Shah contributed Rs. 251/-, 201/- and 100/- respectively. We, on behalf of the felicitation committee express our gratitude to them all.
Vasant Bhatt Dinanath Sharma
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