Development And Impact Of Jainism In India And Abroad

Author(s): Gunvant Barvalia
Publisher: Arham Spiritual Center

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Development & Impact of Jainism in India & Abroad
many research papers on Jain religion. Collectively if put together it itself would become a independent book.
It is not that he studied only Jain religion, he studied mathematics and natural science in great depth.
Following is the list of some of his works :
1) Methods and tables for verifying Hindu dates, Thithis, Eclipses, Nakshatra etc. ( Bombay).
2) The computation of Hindu dates in the Inscriptions (1892) 3) Tables for calculating Hindu dates in true local time (1894) 4) The planetary Tables (1912). All the abovementioned articles are published in. 5) Age of Veda in festchoift for Rudolf Roth. 6) On the Antiquity of Vedic culture - Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1908). He has done work on grammar and on too.
Compound and subordinate clauses, Studies in the development of Indo-European Language. Bonn (1897).
He has worked on epics, purans and stories.
1)The Ramayana, History and contents with a concordance of the Priuted Recensions. Bonn -1983
2)Mahabharat -1903 He has written articles on poetry and beautification. : 1)Dhavni the soul of poetry Dhvanyaloka Leipzig. 1903. 2)Early History of Alamkaras'astra -1930.
He had more inclination and liking towards the study of Hindu philosophy, Nayaya philosophy, and Vaiseshik philosophy. He also studied Yoga philosophy. He has done critical analysis of Logic, Inference etc.
He has written an essay in which he elaborately stated that in comparison to Samkhyayoga, Buddha philosophy is original.
The Origin of Buddhism from Samkhya - yoga (1896) He has expressed deep thought on Bhagvat Gita. He has also written on Theism and Omnipresence. He had also written a research paper on the roots ( origin) of Yoga philosophy which was published from Gotigan Acadamy in the year 1929. Apart from these highly scholastic work, he had also written volumes which would be of interest to a commonman. To mention just a few': Light of the orient - 1922. He has written many papers on the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics. In 1923 he wrote a paper on the concept of God in Indian Philosophy. In this paper he has discussed about the existence of God right from Veda period to Philosophical era.Thus Hermann Yakobi by his dedication throughout his lifetime for the study of philosophy, has created a vast literature in various subjects.
Because of his dedicated work and his contribution in Jain literature, Jain community