Jain Journal 1971 07

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

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SIKDAR, JOGENDRA CHANDRA, Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra, (Prakrit Jain Institute Research Publications 1), Research Institute of Prakrit, Jainology & Ahimsa, Muzaffarpur, 1964. Pages xxiv+ 658.
JAIN JOURNAL
Critical study of Bhagavati Sutra. It comprises of the following eleven chapters: Bhagavat's position in Ardha-Magadhi literature, authorship and date, political conditions as reflected in it, social conditions, economic conditions, education of the period, various philosophical and religious systems, historical data found in the work and its bearing upon the history of the time, cosmology, cosmography, and historical geography, its contribution in the evolution of Jaina philosophical thought, value of it from the literary, historical and philosophical point of view.
SOLOMON, ESTHER A., Gaṇadharavada (a part of Viseṣāvasyakabhāṣya of Jinabhadra), (Research Series No. 62), Gujarat Vidya Sabha, Ahmedabad 1, 1966. Pages vi+73+310. Price Rs. 12.50.
Text with translation, explanation and introduction. Text consists of the gāthās commented upon by Maladhari Hemacandra in his Viseṣāvasyakabhāṣya Bṛhadvṛtti.
WINTERNITZ, MAURICE, A History of Indian Literature, Vol. II: Buddhist Literature and Jaina Literature, translated by Mrs. S. Ketkar and Miss H. Kohn, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, 1933. Pages xx+673.
A detailed history of Jaina literature (pp. 424-595).