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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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L. Alsdorf-Eine Neue Version der verlorenen Brhatkatha des Gunadhya' (P.O. Vol. I; 1936-37).
Pp. 116-118. Review - Journal-Atti Del XIX Congresso Internazionale degli Orientalisti, Roma, 294–29 settmbre, 1935—XIII, Pp. 722.
Dr. L. ALSDORF of Hamburg expounds that apart from the two Kashmere Sanskrit versions of Guņādhya's Bịhatkathā, viz, Somadeva's Kathāsaritasāgara and Kșemendra's BỊhatkatha-Mañjari, there exists another version which has so far been overlooked. And that the Vasudevahindi by Sanghadāsa, a text in Prakrit prose, covering about 370 pages of quarto size. This Jain version is referred to thrice in the Avaśyaka Cūrni, which, therefore, leads to the conclusion that Vasudevahindi is prior to 6th century A.D. But its language is very old and it should, therefore, be much earlier. Thus, it is the oldest exiant version of Guņädhya's Bịhatkathā.
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Rajendra Chandra Hazra-Vişnu Purāņa. (A.B.O.R.I. Vol. XVIII; 1937).
Vişnu Purāna III, 17 & 18-story-referring to Digambara Jainas--Māyāmoha, with his body stripped of all garments, his head shaved, and a peacock feather in hand, went to the banks of Narmada where the Asuras were living, preached to them the religion of the 'naked' (i.e, Jainism) and turned them Arthas, etc.
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J. F. Kohl-Notes-Die Suryaprajñapti, (Bonner Orientalistische Studien 20, Stuttgart, 1937), XXVIII ff. On the Jaina Calendar Cf. S.R. DAs, Jaina Antiquary III, 2, 1937, 31 ff.
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The Bappabhatti
Dasharatha SHARMA --Studies in the Prabhāvaka-Charita - (a) süricharita. (Jain. Ant. Vol. III, No. I), Arrah, 1937. Pp. 1 to 7.
The Prabhavakacharita of Prabhachandra (ninth century of the Vikrama era) containing a review of the whole of Northern India from Gujarat in the West Bengal, in the east, the biographies of several persons and an account of sixtyfour Kalas is important for a student of history. According to Prabhāvakacharita, having a Pratihara lineage Amawas the emperor of Kanoujin v s. 890. Nāgāvaloka, Nāgabhata, Nāhada and Ama are names of one and the same person. According to the
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