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in the development of the Kannada language, and they contributed greatly to many aspects of the cultural life of the region.
This book is the first comprehensive study of Karnataka Jainism in the early medieval period. Based on a detailed analysis of literary and epigraphic sources it provides fresh insight into the subject which has received much less attention from scholars. The social, economic and organisational aspects of Jainism together with important changes have received special attention.
SRI MALLISENA SURI'S SYADVADA-MANJARI translated and annotated by F. W. Thomas Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1968 Pages 176 Price Rs. 25.00
The present work is an English translation of Syädvādamañjari, a Sanskrit commentary by Mallisena, completed in A.D. 1292 on Hemacandra's (1088-11172) Anyayogavyavachhedikā.
Mallisena's work is philosophical. It explains some metaphysical tenets of Jainism as the sevennuance view, the syādvāda, the nayas (methods), etc. It is mainly argumentative. It also refutes the doctrines of the Vaisesikas, Naiyayikas, Sankhyas, Mimansakas, Lokayatas and the Buddhists.
The learned translator has succeeded not only in unravelling the complicated constructions of Sanskrit syntax but also in explaining the serious problems of human existence.
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THE JAINA ICONOGRAPHY by B. C. Bhattacharya Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, Second Revised Edition, 1974 Pages x1 +171 Price Rs. 70.00
Professor B. C. Bhattacharyya, the celebrated author of the Jaina Iconography, first published from Lahore, was a distinguished scholar of Indology deeply interested in the study of Indian iconography, literature and culture. His researches in the field of Jaina iconography were not only pioneering but still form the basis of research in Jainology. Obviously the book has always been in great demand. By publishing
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