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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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J. HERTEL-Beitrage zum Sanskrit werterbuch aus Hemachandra's Parisistaparvan, (zietschrift der deutschen morgenlandischen Gesellschaft. vol. LXII: Pp. 361-369). Leipzig, 1908.
Glossary Sanskrit-German of words little known and even unknown, which are not found in the usual Sanskrit dictionaries.
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H. JACOBI-Uber das Prakrit in der Erzahlungs-Literatur der Jainas, (Rivista degli studi Orientali, Vol. II, Pp. 231-236). Roma, 1908-1909.
Upto now one admitted two varieties in the Jaina Māhārāștri : an ancient dialect, represented especially by the recitals relating to the 'Avaśyaka', and a modern dialect, of which the recitals of Devendra constitute the type.
The linguistic study of the "Samaraditya Katha' of Haribhadra and of the 'Padmacharita’ of Vimla-süri (finished in 530 after the death of Mahāvira, that is to say in the first years of the Christian era) permits to replace this chronological classification by another based on the very nature of the language. One is thus led to distinguish a metrical form and a prosaic form of the Jaina Māhārāștri. General characters of these two varieties. Historical reasons of their existence and their employment in the Jain literature.
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D. C. Sen-History of Bengali Language and Literature. Calcutta, 1911.
Pp. 2-4. Conversion of nearly the whole population of Bengal to Buddhism and Jainism-Out of the twenty-four Tirthankaras of the Jains, twenty-three attained Moksa in Bengal. The seat of their religious activity was Samet-Sekhara or the Paresanath hills in the district of Hazaribagh-Many of the Tirthankaras, such for instance as Sreyamgśunātha and Vāsupūjya, were born in Bengal-Mahāvira spent eighteen years of his life preaching his faith in Rāra Desa (Western Bengal).
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Shripad Krishna BELVALKAR-An Account of the Different Existing Systems of Sanskrit Grammar. Poona, 1915.
Pp. 62-63. Jaina or Mahāvira, the last of the Tirthankaras, is the traditional author of the Fainendra grammar---works like Dhananjaya-kośa or Fain-Hurivamsa
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