Jain Agam Sahitya

Author(s): K R Chandra
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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This publication is a collection of papers that are selected from those which were presented by scholars from all over India on the occasion of a Seminar organised in the year 1986 on the Jain Canonical Literature by the Prakrit and Pali Department of the School of Languages, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad with the financial aid of the U. G.C., New Delhi.
In the present volume there is not merely a one sided study based on the Jaina Agama Sahitya only but one will find that a comparative study is made taking into account the Vedic and the Buddhist literature as well as the modern Science. In this way it is an important contribution to the Indological Studies. The topics that are covered by this book are tentatively as follows:
The Soul, The knowledge, Extrasensory perception, Meditation and Selfobservation, Comparison of rules of conduct. Expiation and Atonement, Religious practices, Fruits of one's own deeds, Emancipation, etc.
Jain Agamic texts and Upanišads, Poetics, Dramatics, Narratives, Allegory, Biography, Wise-sayings, etc.
Antiquity and Chronology of Canonical texts, Problem of 'T' Sruti, Painting, Town-planning etc., etc.
Thus this book is a good source of information about a variety of subjects therein the Jaina Agama Sahitya and it offers a genuine opportunity to scholars to work further on this ancient literature.
K.R. Chandra Retd. Head of the Department,
& Director of the Seminar