Jain Journal 1966 10

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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Books on Jainalogy
BROWN, W. NORMAN, Manuscript Illustrations of the Uttaradhyayana
Sutra (American Oriental Series Vol. XXI) with 150 figures on 46 Plates, American Oriental Society, New Haven, 1941. Pages xiii +54. Price Rs. 18.00.
Introduction and description with illustrations of the discipline of monks, hardships, the four requisites, the past cannot be reassembled, death against one's will, the false ascetic, the parable of the ram, Kapila, Nami's entry into monkhood, the leaf of the tree, the very learned, Harikesha, Citra-Sambhuta, Isukara, the true monk, the conditions of perfect chastity, the bad monk, Sanjaya, Mrigaputta, the great duty of Jaina monks, the story of Samudrapala, the story of Rathanemi, Kesi & Gautama, the samitis or the articles (mothers) of the doctrine, the true sacrifice, correct behaviour, the bulky bullocks, the road to salvation, exertion in righteousness, the road of penance, rules of conduct, the causes of carelessness, the nature of karma, the lesyās, the houseless monk living creatures and things without
life. BUHLER, G., The Life of Hemacandrācārya (Singhi Jain Series Vol. 11),
translated by Manilal Patel with a foreword by M. Winternitz, Singhi Jain Jnanapitha, Santiniketan, 1936. Pages xv+104.
Sources. Hemacandra's early life, Hemacandra and Jayasingha Siddharaja, Hemacandra's first acquaintance with Kumarapala, Kumarapala's conversion, its consequences, Hemacandra's literary
works, stories about Hemacandra and Kumarapala. JACOBI, Hermann, Studies in Jainism (a collection of three original,
important and informative articles on Jainism), edited by Jina Vijaya Muni, Jaina Sahitya Samsodhaka Pratisthan, Ahmedabad, 1946. Pages iii + 92. Price Rs. 3.00.
1. Jainism-introductory, Jaina view of its origin, canonical literature of the Swetāmbaras, doctrines of Jainism, its present state, history of Jainism.
II. The Metaphysics and Ethics of the Jainas-Jainism an original system, statement of the Brāhmanic and Buddhistic doctrines of being, Jaina theory of being, doctrines of syādvāda and nayas, Jaina philosophy compared with Sankhya and Yoga, it is earlier than Nyāya and Vaiseșika.
III. The Place of Jainism in the Development of Indian Thoughtthe ancient concept of soul, original non-distinction between spirit and matter.