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( xxix ) Dipārnava, Samarāngana-Sūtradhāra, Prasādamandana, Rājavallabha, Devatām ürtiprakarana, Käsyapa-Samhitā, Rāya-Paseni-Jivābhigama, Tiloyapannatti, Vāstusāraprakarana, etc., which provide a minc of information to a student of Jaina art and iconography.
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Professor B. C. Bhattacharya, the celebrated author of the Jaina Iconography, was a distinguished scholar of Indology deeply interested in the study of Indian iconography, literature and culture. His rescarches in the field of Jaina iconography were not only pioneering works of their times but still form the basis of research in Jainology. Obviously the book has always been in great demand. It is a matter of regret that Professor Bhattacharya did not live to revise and see the second cdition of his book. The publication of the present cdition by M/s. Motilal Banarsidass, the leading Indological Publishers of India, at the time of the 2500th Nirvānotsava of Lord Mahāvira is a fitting tribute to the great contribution made by Professor Bhattacharya and a great service to the students of Jainology.
National Museum, New Delhi. Mahāvira Jayanti, 1974.
B. N. SHARMA
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