Jaina Philosophy Historical Outline

Author(s): Narendra Nath Bhattacharya
Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publisher's Pvt Ltd New Delhi

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J.P. Jain under the title Jaina Sources of the History of Ancient India (1964) which is expected to be helpful in Indological studies. Another significant contribution to Jain studies is V.A. Sangave's Jain Community: A Social Survey which came out in 1959.
Now about the works of technical character. So far as the Jain epigraphs are concerned, we have already the occasion to refer to the labour made in this field by Guerinot and P.C. Nahar. In 1926, K.P. Jain's Prācīna Jaina Lekha Samgraha was published and it was followed by H.L. Jain's Jaina Šilalekha Samgraha (1928). Coomaraswamy's Catalogue of the Jain paintings and manuscripts of the Indian collection in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts appeared in 1924. In the annual report of the Archaeological Survey of India (1925-26), R.P. Chanda published his Jaina Remains at Rajgir. In 1936 came out M.S. Nawal's Jaina Citra Kalapadruma. Significant articles on Jain art were published by K.P. Jayaswal (JBORS, XXIII, 1937), H.D. Sankalia (JRAS, 1938, JISOA, IX, 1941), U.P. Shah (JUB, X, 1941) and others. In 1939 was published B.C. Bhattacharya's epoch making Jain Iconography which had remained for a long time the only standard work on that subject. Moti Chandra's Jaina Miniature Paintings from Western India was published in 1949. During the fifties U.P. Shah published a number of articles on Jain art and iconography in different Indological Journals and his Studies in Jaina Art came out in 1955.
We have already referred to a number of works in the body of this chapter also in the footnotes which have direct or indirect bearing on the study of Jain philosophy. Pioneer in this field are H. Jacobi's Metaphysics and Ethics of the Jainas and J.L. Jhaveri's First Principles of Jaina Philosophy. Besides the general works on the history of Indian philosophy, by eminent scholars like S. N. Dasgupta, S. Radhakrishnan and others, containing important chapters on Jain philosophy, we have such specialised works on different aspects of this subject as C. Krause's Interpretation of Jain Ethics or V. Glasenapp's Doctrine of Karman in Jain Philosophy. Of the recent works in this field, mention may be made of D. N. Bhargava's Jaina Ethics (1958), T. G. Kalghatgi's. Some Problems in Jain Psychology (1961), K. C. Sogani's Ethical Doctrines in Jainism (1967), M. L. Mehta's Jain Philosophy (1971), K. K. Dixit's Jain Ontology (1971) etc. Although most of the works on Jainism deal with its philosophical contents and also there are a good number of specialised works of the types mentioned above, a comprehensive work on Jain philosophy in historical outlines