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Thanks to the efforts of the Orientalists and Indologists, a sizable portion of this literature has been now made accessible, though much yet remains to be done to unearth it. Dr. Winternitz in his famous History of Indian Literature (1912) had only given a prefatory description of the few caritras, kathas and other forms of literature, in addition to the usually known canonical works and treatises bearing on them. Besides these, there are hundreds, nay thousands, of other literary works of which Dr. Winternitz has made no mention and obviously had no knowledge, which are still lying hidden in the Jaina Sastra Bhandaras.
JAIN JOURNAL
This special issue presents selected pieces from Jaina Canonical literature, as extant so far, to give within a narrow compass as panoramic a view as possible. The selection is made at random and does not by any means claim exhaustiveness. The present issue is based on the Svetambara sources alone; if possible, it is intended to give a similar presentation based on the Digambara sources at some future date.
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