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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
1859
Conclusiom: Asoka certainly professed Jainism at a certain stage of his life. He based his religious code (dhamma) on Jain dogmas and Jain spirit. When he got inscribed his last pillar edict, he was Jaina at heart.
2748
V. R. Ramachandra DIKSHITAR-Some Join Teachers in Sravana Belgola. (Indian Culture, VII, Pp. 41-45). Calcutta, 1940.
Based on inscriptions at Śravana Belgola, the writer enumerates some Jain teachers, and concludes that the period covered by the 6th to the 8th centuries in South India was marked by wordy warfare and learned religious dispensations, especially between Buddhists and Jains, as also between Saivas and Vaisnavas.
2749
H. R. KAPADIA-The Jaina System of Education. (Journal of the Uni. Bombay, VIII, 1940).
Pp. 194-259. Traces the Jaina system of education and its classification.
2750
A. N. UPADHYE-Mystic Elements in Jainism. (Pro. and Tr. of the Ninth All Ind. Or. Conf. Trivandrum, 1937; Trivandrum, 1940).
Pp. 673-677. A short study to see what elements of Jainism have contributed to mysticism, and in what way it is akin to or differs from such a patent mysticism as that of monistic Vedanta.
2751
E. WATTS-Buddhist and Jain Nuns in India. (Indian Review, Vol. XLI, Madras,
1940).
Pp. 408-9. No great respect for women, formation of orders of nuns; monastic rules of both coincide in many respects.
2752
M. Ramakrishna KAVI-Bhatta Jayanta and Yasovarman of Kashmir. (AcaryaPuspanjali Volume, in honour of D. R. BHANDARKAR. Calcutta, 1940).
Pp. 46-49. Agamaḍambara is a sort of allegorical drama by Jayanta, where the characters are the representatives of various schools of philosophy, including
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