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BOOK REVIEW
1 UTTARADHYAYAN SUTRA-EK PARISILAN (Uttaradhyayana Sutra-A Study) (in Hindi): Dr. Sudarshanlal Jain : Sohanlal Jaindharm Pracharak Samiti, Amritsar, 1970: Pages 16+532: Price Rs. 25.00.
2. JAIN DHARM-ME AHIMSA (Ahimsa in Jainism) (in Hindi) : Dr. Vasisthanarayan Sinha : Sohanlal Jaindharam Pracharak Samiti, Amritsar, 1972: Pages 16+312: Price Rs. 20.00
3. JAINISM IN BUDDHIST LITERATURE: Dr. Bhag Chandra Jain Alok Prakashan, Nagpur, 1972: Pages 14+307 Price Rs. 40.00
The three books under review have been dissertations for the Ph. D. Degree, and the three scholars deserve a hearty congratulation for their scholarly productions.
1. Although many scholars, both Indian and foreign, have written so far on the Uttarādhyayana Sutra, it has not yet exhausted its potentiality for further writing on it. This is amply and aptly demonstrated in the first book in the list. There are two main reasons why the Uttaradhyayana Sutra has been a source of attraction to scholars. First, it has a very comprehensive text running over 36 chapters which give the principal tenets of Jainism in a lucid verse form which has made it more readable than the dry text of many other Jaina Sutras. Second, it is the Sutra which, it is stated, Sramana Bhagavan Mahavira uttered during his last moments on this earth. Therefore, to a devout Jaina, the words contained in this Sutra are very sacred.
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