Jain Journal 2007 04

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

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JAIN JOURNAL : VOL-XLI, NO.4 APRIL. 2007
The author has painstakingly laboured much to ransack all the details of Jain Logic from the original text. At every step, the author has authenticated his statements with a sort of reference. It should be noted that the other systems of Indian logic are also studied comparatively. The systems of Nyāya, Vaišeșika, Samkhya, Mimāṁsā and Vedānta are frequently mentioned in respective places.
In the end, I personally feel that this is the most authoritative book on Jain Logic. I hope every library of the world should possess a copy of this book in order to enhance the quality of the library.
Satya Ranjan Banerjee
Scientific Vision of Lord Mahāvīra (with special reference to Bhagavati Sūtra) by Samani Chaitanya Pragya, Jain Vishva Bharati, Ladnun, Rajasthan, 2005, pp. xxiii + 173, price Rs. 150.00 only.
The scientific outlook of Lord Mahāvīra as embalmed and treasured up in the Jain canonical literature with special reference to the Bhagavati-sūtra, the fifth Anga of the Jains, is best illustrated in the treatise known as Scientific Vision of Lord Mahāvīra written by Samani Chaitanya Pragya of Jain Vishva Bharati University. The book is a well-documented one and contains a mass of information with regard to the philosophical and scientific study of a Jain canonical text Bhagavati-sūtra.
"The fifth Anga, the Bhagavatī Viyāha-Pannatti, "the holy teaching of explanation", usually entitled briefly “Bhagavatī”, says Winternitz, "contains a bulky, circumstantial presentation of the dogmatics of Jinism, partly in the form of questions and answer, Mahāvīra replying to the question of his principal disciple Goyama Indrabhūti, and partly in the formn of dialogue-legends (itihāsasamvāda). The contents are a motley mixture of ancient doctrines and traditions, with numerous later additions containing frequent allusions to other works, more especially to the Pannavaņā, the Jīvābhigama, the Uvavāiya, the Rāya-pasenaijja, the Nandi and the Ayāradasão. This work gives a more vivid picture than any other work, of the life