Doctrine of Jainas

Author(s): Walther Shubring, Wolfgang Beurlen
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas

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DOCTRINE OF THE JAINAS
later years have been catalogued by the AUTHOR not earlier than in 19441
Some time about those eighties the first prints of canonical texts (1880 ff.) came to Europe adding to foster Jain research work over there Their inaugurator was Ray DHANPATI SIMHA Bahadur at Azimganj or Murshidabad in Bengal Those huge volumes served their purpose until they were replaced by more handy ones some thirty years after (s.b).
The manuscripts described by WEBER had come to Berlin thanks to an agreement between BÜHLER and the Department of Public Instruction at Bombay which had commissioned him and other scholars in their service with the careful examination of private collections and the purchase of manuscripts at government cost's He was allowed to acquire manuscripts even for foreign libraries, provided they were doubles The examined and purchased manuscripts were catalogued and listed in the valuable reports of R S and S R. BHANDARKAR, BÜHLER, KIELHORN, PETERSON, and others. The manuscripts acquired by the Government have been deposited in the Deccan College, now Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Poona. The Jain works among them have been minutely described by H.R KAPADIA in Vol XVII of the Descriptive Catalogue of the Institute (1935-48). An appendix is devoted to graphic peculiarities (comp. JUB Vol 5 and 6)2
BÜHLER, through his Reports, has not only become a patron of Jain philology indirectly, but thanks to a number of original works and essays has been a direct promotor in our field, as, in the course of years, WEBER, too, had been, and, moreover, they both have inspired younger scholars. JACOBI'S critical edition of the "Kalpasūtia of Bhadrabāhu" (AKM 7, 1 1879) clearly shows traces of BÜHLER'S spirit, while LEUMANN'S
1 Die Jaina-Handschriften der Preussischen Staatsbibliothek erwerbungen seit 1891 Leipzig 1944 (1127 mss on 647 pages)
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2 WEBER already dealt with this topic (Verz II 3, p XII ff) LEUMANN discussed the influence of the shape of the leaves upon the text (ZDMG 46, 583f) Miniatures in manuscripts were treated by HUTTEMANN, Baessler-Archiv 4, 2, BROWN, Jaina Gazette 28, p 77-83 (reviewed by Hirananda SASTRI ibid 113 f), BROWN, Kalaka (§ 24) with a bibliography The Bibliography of Indian Archaeology may also be consulted