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An appreciation and opinion of Dr. MANOMOHAN GHOSH, M.A., Ph. D., "Kāvyatirtha' Lecturer in Skt., Pkt., and Modern Indian Languages,
Post. Graduate Department, Calcutta University.
Among the many series of works on the culture of ancient and medieval India published during the last few years, the Singhi Jain Series occupies a very prominent place. Dealing mainly with varied Jain texts of which the general students of Indian History up till now have no clear idea but which can in many ways supplement their fragmentary knowledge of different aspects of the cultural life of pre-modern India, this series should be reckoned as one of the most important contributions to Indological studies of our times. Sixteen volumes which have been published in the series during its brief existence of thirteen years include no less than fourteen texts and two translations. It is a pleasure to see that these texts edited with great diligence and the most careful scholarship belong to varying subjects like history, biography, logic, philosophy, poetry and folk-tales etc. Acarya Sri Jinavijaya Muniji whose name is a guarantee to the worth and accuracy of any publication, be it in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Apabhramsa or similar language, is the general editor of the series and is mainly responsible for its remarkable success. Hence it is needless to discuss individually the merits of works published. Of the published works no less than seven have been edited by Muni Sri Jinavijayaji himself and among his colleagues he has wellknown and ablc scholars like Pandit Sukhlalji and Dr. A. N. Upadhye, who have edited some of the publications in the series.
A review of the names of more than forty works which are either in the press or under preparation for the series will convince any student of Indology of the various aspects of its worth and usefulness. The excellent printing and get up of the volumes already published very pleasantly turn our attention to the princely munificence of Sriman Bahadur Singh Singhi of Calcutta and Murshidabad (Bengal) who founded the series in memory of his late father Shri Dalchandji Singhi. The general editor as well as the founder of the series are to be very sincerely congratulated on their highly valuable publications It is our very earnest wish that the series may continue uninterruptedly with uniform success.
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(sa.) Dr. Manomohan Ghogh.
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