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Pp. 319-321. References to the Cakravartin tradition occurs in a Tamil Jain work, of about the 13th century A.D., the Jvasambodhanai, which is being edited by S. Vaiyapuri PILLAI Both text and commentary the work of one author. Elaborate account of Sagara and his imperial attributes-detailed analysis given.
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B. S. UPADHYA-The River Sindhu of the Malavikagimitra, (J.U.P. Hist. Soc. Vol. XIV; Pt. I. 1941).
Pp. 10-20. Contemporaneity of Pusyamitra with Kharavela highly improbable. The Greek king of the Indian invasion was Demetrios and not Menander. The Yugapurana of the Gärgi Samhita, an astronomical work of about 1st century B. G., narrates the incidents of the Greek invasion just after the reign of Salisuka Maurya, the fourth successor of Asoka. Śäliśūka forcibly converted the people of Saurastra to Jainism, his own faith, (J.B.O.R.S, XIX, 3, 1928, Pp. 401, 1.19) Puşyamitra killed Brhadratha, the last emperor of the Maurya dynasty; he revived the horse
sacrifice.
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A. N. UPADHYE-Materials for the interpretations of the term Gommata. (I. H. Q., XVI; Pp. 819-826, Calcutta, 1940; for its Hindi version J. S. B. VIII, 2, Pp. 85-90, Arrah, 1941).
This paper presents a critical study and an objective reinterpretation of some. of the crucial gathas of the Gommatasara in which the term Gommata is used with various shades of meaning. It is obvious from the discussion that Gommata was a name of Camundaraya who got carved the famous statue of Bahubali at Sravana Belgola.
Jain Education International
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A. N. UPADHYE-The Present Position of Prakrit, Jaina and Buddhistic Studies and their Future. (Presidential Address of the Prakrit and Buddhism Section, A.I.O.C., Hyderabad, Proc. of the A.I.O.C., VII, Pp. 1-34, Hyderabad, 1941).
This is an exhaustive address which takes stock of the work done in the Jaina and Buddhistic fields of study during the earlier years. The future prospects in these fields are also discussed in details.
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