Jain Journal 1997 04

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

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BOOKS ON PRAKRIT AND JAINISM
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BOOKS ON PRAKRIT AND JAINISM
Manak Chand Jaini - Life of Mahavira (Mahāvira-caritra), a reprint by
the Academic Press, Gurgaon-122 001, Haryana, 1985 (1st edn Allahabad, 1908), pp. 91. Price. Rs. 45.00. (Contents : Introduction, the historicity of Mahavira, sources of information - mythological stories, family-relation-birth, childhoodeducation-marriage and posterity, renouncing the world, severe penance,
his preachings, attainment of Nirvāṇa and its date). Asoo Lal Sancheti and Manak Mal Bhandari - First Steps to Jainism,
Vol-I and II, M. Sujan Mal Ugan Kanwar Sancheti Trust, Jodhpur, Vol-I 3rd edn 1995, pp. 88 with 32 plates; Vol-II, 1994, pp. 154. Price. Rs. 200.00 (set). (Contents : Vol-I. Six substances, seven tattvas, three ratnas, laksana,
panca paramesthi ; Vol-II, doctrines of Karma and Anekanta). Willem B. Bollée - Materials for an Edition and Study of the Pinda-and
Oha-Nijjuttis of the Svetambara Jain Tradition, Stuttgart 1991.
[Vol-I contains the the Pada-index]. Willem B. Bollée - Materials for an Edition and Study of the Pinda-and
Oha-Nijjuttis of the Svetambara Jain Tradition, Vol-II Text and
Glossary, Stuttgart, 1994, pp. xiii+418. M.V. Patwardhan (ed) - The Gāthā-kosa of Hala (Sātavāhana), part II,
B.L. Institute of Indology, Delhi, 1988, pp.xvi+248. Price Rs. 250.00. [It contains the English translation of Gāthā-kosa, index of stanzas, Glossary and notes, and an Introduction). The part I text (Gathā-kosa) with the Sanskrit commentary of Bhuvanapāla was published by Prakrit Text Society, Ahmedabad,
in 1980. V.M. Kulkarni - Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics, Vol-I Text
(with Appendexes and Indexes). B.L. Institute of Indology, Delhi, 1988, pp. 602+129, price : 159.00; Vol-II (English translation,
Introduction, Glossary and Notes), 1994, pp. 46+699, price : 148.00. Shrichand Chorariya - Yoga-kośa, Vol-II, Jain Darshan Samiti,
Calcutta, 1996, pp. 116+360, price : 150.00. [The Yoga-kośa contains all the references to the Yoga-śāstra found in the Jaina literature. This Yoga-kośa will also tell us how to do research on a particular topic of Jainism. It is a Cyclopaedia on the Jaina Yoga). The Vol-I was published in 1993.