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essentials. This way English speaking youth can perform this ritual with proper understanding. The following link to Jaina website has pdf file of English Pratikraman. http://www.jaina.org/educationcommittee education material/SSSPathashalaBooks/
You can buy the Pratikraman book Cost is $1.00 per book + postage ($2.00 +0.50 per book). Just send an e-mail to education (wjaina.org with your postal address and telephone and we will mail it as soon as possible. Please send your check to Jaina Education Committee after you receive the book. This year we have sold more than 1500 copies of this book. The youth from many Jain centers used this book to perform their annual religious obligation. Please provide any suggestions you may have with regards to this book.
Jaina Education E-Library Project
The project was initiated about a year ago. During this time we have scanned more than 700 books (High resolution images) consisting of 200,000 pages of the ancient and modern Jain literature in English, Hindi and Gujarati languages. In addition we have received 600 scanned books (Low resolution images) from Digambar Achärya Suvidhi Sägarji Mahäräj. We are in process of compiling this data in a usable form on our website. However as a temporary solution, we have created a temporary website http://elibrary.jaina.org/ (do not type www in the front) and uploaded many of these books using the following classifications
JAINA Education Päthashälä & Reference Books HR Ancient Books 600+ächärya Suvidhi Sägarji LRPunyavijayji and Jambuvijayji Edited Books HR Jain Ägams 32 Madhukarmuni Edit Rajasthan HR Präkrit Society Publications of Ancient Books HR Shrimad Räjchandra related Literature HR Pujya Kanji Swami Songadh Literature HRMuni Shri Santbäl related Literature HRAncient Miscellaneous Books HR
Veeräyatan-Upädhyäy Amarmuni Literature HR Pundit Dhirajlal Mehta Publications HR Note HR = High resolution images, LR = Low resolution images
There are a total of 900 books that exist in the above website. They are in pdf format. The file size of some of the books is very high (40 to 50 MB). Please do not open the pdf book on the website. First select the book and download the book in your local computer and then open to read it. You need acrobat reader to read the pdf formatted book.
Financial Support
The eLibrary project will preserve, protect, and disseminate our literature to any individual or institutes freely. So far education committee has spent $20,000 and now onwards the Committee will spend $25000 per year. Our target is to spend $100,000 on this project within the next three to four years. This service is totally free to the end users. Please support financially the Jaina Education and eLibrary projects. As of June 21, 2008 the JAINA education committee has a balance of $10,709. Please send your contribution to: Federationa of Jaina Education Committee
509 Carriage Woods Circle, Raleigh, NC 27607 USA Tele 919 859 4994 509
Please do not send your contribution directly to the Jaina headquarters. After proper recording, your contribution is sent to the Jaina treasurer.
JAIN DIGEST. Fall 2008/7 Jain Education Intemational
For Private & Personal Use Only
For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
