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Publisher's Note
Language has been one of the fundamental concerns of the Indian philosophy. Since, the language is one of the strong means of communication of one's thought and expressions, all scholars of thought began their philosophical discussions from the fundamental problems of communication. The Indian approach to the study of language and linguistic problems has been characterised by both analysis and synthesis. Out of these two, the analytical method is older and much popular on which the mansion of Jaina and Buddhist philosophy of language is erected. One can find out the seeds of this analytical method in the theory of Vibhajyavāda, the early theory adopted for denotation of words and sentences, in bothž Jaina and Buddhist traditions.
The present title 'Jaina Philosophy of Language' is the English rendering of the ‘Jaina Bhāṣā-darśana', the first monograph on the Jaina philosophy of language authored by Prof. Sagarmal Jain which was originally published in Hindi from Bhogilal Laherchand Institute of Indology, Delhi in 1986. The book was well received by the scholars and the researchers. Keeping in view the importance of the work Parshwanath Vidyapeeth decided to bring out its English translation, which, on our request was prepared by Prof. Surendra Verma, Former Deputy Director, Parshwanath Vidyapeeth. We express our sincere thanks to Prof. Verma, for rendering this book into English.
We take this opportunity of expressing our sincere gratitude to Prof. Sagarmal Jain for entrusting this work to us for publication. In his monumental work, by virtue of the short but self-contained discussions, Prof. Jain has succintly presented the contents of Jaina philosophy of language in a lucid manner. On the occasion of publication of this book, we salute to him with heart-felt regards.
We are very thankful to Dr. Shriprakash Pandey, Assistant Director at Parshwanath Vidyapeeth for editing this work meticulously. He not only edited the present work but also translated some portions of the book, which were lost from the translated manuscript, and managed it also through the press.
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