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A NOTE
The Bhārati Jaina Parişat presents before the scholarly world this volume of “Jaina Bibliography" by Mr. Chhote Lal Jain as the first number of its Jaina Bibliography Seris. The vast field of Jaina Literature, Art and Archaeology, Philosophy and Religion is stili mostly unexplored. The scholars of the East and the West have already made valuable researches into the Vedic and Buddhistic Literature, but unfortunately the Jaina Literature which covers a wide field of indological studies has not been properly appreciated. This is to a great extent due to the apathy of the Jaina community who did not care to bring the religio-cultural heritage of their forebears within the easy reach of the modern scholars. It is a happy sign nowadays that some patrons of the Jaina Culture are trying to organise cultural institutions for Jaina Studies, and there are some Jaina scholars trained in scientific methods who have already made valuable contributions to this branch of knowledge.
But a research scholar should have as his constant companion a bibliography of the subject he is interested in. There are the Vedic Bibliography, the Bibliographie Bouddhique and similar bibliographies. For the benefit of the Jaina scholars, Dr. A. Guerinot, a French savant compiled a Jaina Bibliography, but this book covered researches upto the period of 1906. Mr. Jain has tried to supplement the treatise of Guerniot and his book covers researches till 1925. He intends to make it uptodate in another volume.
