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The Sacred Books of the Jainas.
ous historical work. Kumar Devendraprasad we are glad to note had been collecting materials for writing a history of Jainism for the last seven years and is ready to supply plenty of them to our graduates if they are kind enough to take up the study of Jaina History. Now the time is come when all these materials should be pieced together under the following heads and a complete upto-date illustrated history of our dear Jainism be published. This is a life long work and requires labour of and help from learned scholars and students. Let us train ourselves and our brethren to take up some of these. Messrs U. D. Barodia, Keshavlal Premchand Modi, Dahyabhai Premchand Modi, Mansukblal Kiratchand Mehta, Motichand Girdhar Kapadia, Manilal Natboobhai Doshi, Chimanlal Dahyabhai Dalal and many other gentlemen interested in the study of Jaina literature and history can do well to take up some of these. We now have hundred of graduates who can be active and useful both to themselves and to their community. If the work of translating the Sanskrit Jaina litera. ture would appear very hard, all of us can pick up from the annexed list works suited to our taste and capacities.
The Jaina Research Publication Book-Fund Series to Cuesist of the following:
The Jaina Historical Library. (i) Lives of 24 Tirthankaras. (ii) Biographies of Jaina Acharyas ( their life and work.) (iii): Lives of Lord Vira's Apostles, (iv) Jaina Kings (chronological collections of all.) (v) Pattavalis and Gurvavalis in chronological order of
different ganas, gachhas, shakhas &o. (vi) Historical charts such as Life-charts of Tirthankaras. (vii) , (wall-charts) of chakravartis, Vasudevas,
Balabhadras, Prati-vasudevas &o. . (viii) Jaina Historical Studies,
