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જૈન ગુર્જર કવિઓ ભાગ લી
જૈન ગૂર્જર કવિઓ ભાગ લે.
તે રા'ખ'ધી અભિપ્રાયા.
સાક્ષર શ્રી કૃષ્ણલાલ માહનલાલ ઝવેરી. M. A. . . ô, મુબઈની રમેલ ફ્રોઝઝ કાર્ડના વડા જસાહેબે જે અભિપ્રાય થત ડીસેભરમાં આખા મૈં જાન્યુઆરીના ૨૭ ના માનવઘુમાં પ્રકટ થયા :
(1) JAIN GURJAR POETS. PART I:-By Mohanlal Dalichand Desai, B. A. LL, B., Vakil, High Court. Printed at the Diamond Jubilee Printing Press. Ahmedabad, Cloth Cover. Pp. 320-656. Price Rs. 5-0-0 (1926).
This is a treasure house of old poems written by Jain poets in Gujarati be tween the XIIth and XVII centuries of the Vikrama Era. The collection is the 'result' of Mr. Desai's persistence and assiduity as he has left hardly a single Jain Bhandar unexplored, wherever and whenever he could help it. His opinion is that prior to the XIIIth century, the literature of Gujarat was written in Apabramska (very old Gujarati) and hence he has taken that century as the starting point for his collection, A preface of staggering volume consisting of 320 pages, containing a short history of old Gujarati forms an important part of this book af the author calls this a short history we wonder what the 'size' his preface would have been, had it been
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a full one. He passes in rapid review the different stages of the development of the language from Sanskrit to Prakrit, thence to Shaurseni and Paishachi, Apabramsha, old Gujrati to its present state. He asserts the principle that the prior or older forms of the language were not dying or becoming dead, but that they were developing and presenting an altered exterior. The preface is replete with quotations, from very old writers in support of the facts stated by the writer who is at palns to show that so far as the language or vehicle for expression was concerned there was no difference or distinction between the writings of Jain and Non-Jain (Brahmin) writers in those far off days, just as there is none now. We congratulate Mr. Desai in his magnum opus, and await the second part with great interest.
K. M. J. Modern Review January 27. જૈન ગૂર્જર કવિઓ ભાગ લા—કર્તા માહનલાલ દલીચંદ દેશાઈ બી. એ. એલ એલ. ખી. વકીલ લાઇકેટ, મુદ્રિત–ડાયમંડ જ્યુબિલિ પ્રિન્ટીંગ પ્રેસ અમદાવાદ. લુગડાનું પુ' પૂ. ૩૨૦+૬૫૬ કિંમત ૩. પાંચ (૧૯૨૬).
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