Jain Journal 1997 04

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

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JAIN JOURNAL : Vol-XXXI, No. 4 April 1997 what it is expected. These bibliographical indexes help the readers and researchers to collect facts on their respective subjects. One man's labour saves the labours of thousand men. This is the spirit of bibliography. Mr. Sibdas Chaudhuri is an expert in preparing bibliographical indexes. While he was the librarian of the Asiatic Society, he had prepared an index of the Journals and publications of the Asiatic Society, and also some volumes on Indological studies for 1955, 1956 and so on.
I hope this bibliography of Sibdas Chaudhuri will definitely help the scholars in their research work and we will expect some more volumes from him to keep the Indological studies alive. For the Indological studies this bibliography will be a "must" and I hope this index will adorn the tables of teachers and researchers of Indological studies.
Satya Ranjan Banerjee
B.K. Khadabadi - Studies in Jainology, Prakrit Literature and Languages (a collection of 51 selected papers), Prakrit Bharati Academy, Jaipur, 1977, price : Rs. 300.00.
One of the latest contributions to the field of Prakrit literature and languages, and also of Jainology, is the contribution of Professor Khadabadi. Professor Khadabadi in his long life contributed lots of articles on Jainology and on the Prakrit language which were published from time to time in different Journals and felicitation volumes. The present study is a collection of some 51 articles of Professor Khadabadi in the above mentioned book under review. From his preface it is known that he has some more articles scattered at different places. It will be a nice idea if those articles are also published in subsequent years.
It is one of the good things of the Prakrit Bharati Academy of Jaipur to publish some articles of some scholars in a book form like the present one. From that point of view, the Prakrit Bharati Academy is to be congratulated for undertaking such a publication. It is always difficult to find out the articles from the pages of different Journals, because not a single library (except a very few in number) is well-equipped with all sorts of Indological Journals of the world. As Journals are increasing day by day, it is also difficult to cope with the latest development of the Journals. So scholars who are serious and at the same time contributing consistently and regularly articles to different Journals are requested to publish their articles in a book form in subsequent years. As Professor Khadabadi is a serious and persistent