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THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS
(Bibliotheca Jainica Series.)
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VOL. I.
DRAVYA-SANGRAHA
BY
NEMICHANDRA SIDDHANTA-CHAKRAVARTI,
[Original Text consisting of Prakrit-Gathas and Sanskrit renderng of the same in Devanagri with transliteration in Roman Characters.]
EDITED WITH
NTRODUCTION, TRANSLATION, NOTES, PADAPATHA, GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL WORDS OF JAINA PHILOSOPHY, INDEX, APPENDIX, ETC., ETC.
BY
SARAT CHANDRA GHOSHAL, M. A., B. L., Sarasvati, Kavya-Tirtha, Vidyabhushan, Bharti. Sometimes Professor of Sanskrit, Edward College, Pabna, and Professor of English and Philosophy, Hindu College, Delhi; Translator of "Vedant-Paribhasha", "Vayu
Puran" and Editor of "Prachin Bharti Granthawati," etc.
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The long Introduction to this volume contains a lucid account of the principal tenets of Jaina Metaphysics and Philosophy and it might also be said to be a monograph on the Life and Works of Nemichandra and his patron Chamunda Raya, the celebrated Jaina Minister who has left an immortal record of his piety in Jaina temples and images at Sravana Belgola which are now the wonders of the world. Illustrations of these images and temples of antiquities have been prepared from photographs, and reproductions of ancient inscriptions have been made at an immense cost, and these with numerous charts revealing at a glance the complicate divisions and sub-divisions of Jaina Metaphysics and Philosophy add to the value of this work. Extracts from hitherto unpublished works of Nemichandra such as Labdhisar, Ksapanasara, Trilok-sar, etc., have been quoted in the Introduction from rare manuscripts, and the worth of this volume will be understood from only this remark that in it is published for the first time the Introduction and Colophon of the greatest of the Digambara Canons Dhawala and Jaya-dhawala, only one Ms. of which has been discovered at present, but which have been followed and quoted by all Digambara writers as works of paramount authority.
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