Jain Journal 2001 01

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

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BOOK REVIEW
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from the first century B.C. - A.D. In Padmakirti's Pasanähacariu in Apabhramsa written in A.D. 1077 is represented the third Digambara version of the legend.
U.P. Shah's article on The Historical Origin and Ontological Interpretation of Arhat Pärsva's Association with Dharanendra is an interesting one and is also authenticated with textual references. Some articles containing the images and temples of Pārsvanatha, such as, Images and Temples of Parsva in Central India by Amar Singh, Pārsvanātha Images in Orissa and Bengal by D.R. Das, Parsvanātha Images in Ellora by Marutinandan Prasad Tiwari are illuminating and informative. Pārsvanātha is also mentioned in southern India inscriptions, and these are Jina Parsva and his Temples in Inscriptions: Southern India (C. 5th to 11th cent. A.D) Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu by K.V. Ramesh and Jina Pārsva and his Temples in Inscriptions : Southern India (Karnataka) (C. 5th to 11th century A.D.) by Madhav N. Katti.
It contains 67 plates of Pārsvanātha collected from different museums of India showing different aspects of Parsvanātha figures belonging to different centuries. All these plates are not chronologically arranged.
On the whole, this is a well-written text on Pärsvanātha and his Dharanendra legend and every piece of article is well-edited and every piece of information is also well-documented. The quality of paper and printing is of high order and binding is done well. A well-authenticated life story of Pārsvanātha would have been an added quality to this book. Every ardent scholar of Jainism must peruse this volume for his research.
Manatungācārya aur unke Stotra-ed by Madhusudan Dhaky and Jitendra Shah, Sharadaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre, Ahmedabad, 1997, pp. (viii) + 135.
The two editors - M.A. Dhaky and J.B. Shah-are to be congratulated for bringing out a treatise on Mānatunga and his workBhaktāmara-stora. In their elaborate Hindi introduction, the editors have discussed several problems on the Bhaktamara-stotra, such as, the story behind the composition of the work, the sloka-number of Bhaktāmara, the philosophy of the work, Bhayahara-stotra and the comparison, the date of Manatunga and his followers. It also contains only the texts of Bhaktāmara-stotram and Bhayahara-stotram The