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JULY, 1987
SHAH, RAMANLAL C., Jain Sahitya Samāroha, Part 2, Sri Mahavir
Jain Vidyalaya, Bombay, 1987. Pages 16+398+82. Price Rs. 40.00.
Report and collection of essays read at the sixth literary conference held at Khambhat in Feb. 1985.
SHASTRI, Pt. BALCHANDRA, Satkhandāgam Parisilan (in Hindi),
Bharatiya Jnan Pith, New Delhi, 1987. Pages 52+916. Price Rs. 120/-,
A detailed and critical study, touching the different aspects of the canonical work Satkhāņdāgama. The discussion is divided into eleven chapters of which Chs. 1 & 2 deal with the name of the work, its author, source, authenticity, language, style, method of exposition, classification of topics and certain other allied things, Ch. 3 describes in detail the subject matter of each of the six parts (or khandas), Ch. 4 provides a comparative study of Satkhandagama with more than a dozen other works on the same subject, Ch. 5 deals with the known exegetical literature relating to this text in general, and its Dhavala commentary in particular, Ch. 6 gives information about Santakamma-panjiya, a short commentary of unknown authorship on a portion of the text, Chs. 7-9 discuss works and authors quoted or alluded to, directly or indirectly in the Dhabala, Ch. 10 discusses the style and method of exposition employed in Virasena's Dhavala and Ch. 11 contains an index of the numerous quotations which Virasena had gleaned from different earlier works and used in the Dhavalā. With useful appendices and introduction.
SUBRAMANYAM, Ka Naa, Tiruvalluvar and His Tirukkural, Bharatiya
Jnanpith, New Delhi, 1987. Pages xvi +225. Price Rs. 45.00.
It undertakes to spell out the implications of the tenets found in the Tamil Classic Kural and to relate them to Jaina doctrine as they should be. Tiruvalluvar, the author of the Kural was a disciple of Acarya Kundakunda, if not Kundakunda himself and flourished sometime between 1st Century B.C. and 1st Century A.D.
TOLIYA, PRATAP KUMAR J., Meditation & Jainism, Vardhaman
Bharati International Foundation, Bangalore, 1986. Pages 42. Price Rs. 5.00.
A small tract on the subject.
YUVACARYA MAHAPRAJNA (ed.), Suyagado 2, Anekant
Sodhpeeth, Jain Vishwa Bharati, Ladnun, Rajasthan, 1986. Pages 19+418. Price Rs. 125.00.
Text with Sanskrit rendering, Hindi translation and notes.
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