Jainas in History of Indian Literature

Author(s): Jinvijay
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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desire to get translated into the English language. Dr. WINTERNITZ informed me that an English translation of the entire book was being published by the Calcutta University and was already in the press; but he offered to send me for publication a short dissertation in English which he had written some years ago giving a short outline of the history of Jain literature such as might be useful to a student who wished to obtain a cursory view of the subject. On my wishing to publish it, he sent me the article by post.
PREFACE
Just then I shifted my headquarters from Shantiniketan to Ahmedabad, and Dr. WINTERNITZ's article unfortunately got mixed up in a huge mass of files in the course of the shifting. I was naturally grieved over it, the more so because about that time Dr. WINTERNITZ himself passed away from this world.
Luckily Dr. WINTERNITZ's valuable article was discovered last year as I was looking through my old files and papers, which were brought form Ahmedabad to the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Bombay. My joy was boundless and I immediately decided to restart the Jain Sahitya Sams'odhaka Granthamālā, which I had inaugurated more than 25 years ago but which I had discontinued on account of various reasons. I have now, great pleasure in placing this essay into the hands of scholars through this series.
Dr. WINTERNITZ's copy, which he sent to me, is a type-written script wherein the learned Doctor has himself in his own handwriting made several amendations and alterations and written in the Nāgarī script the Sanskrit verses quoted in the text. I naturally value the copy very greatly. The text of the essay in this book is based completely on that typescript.
The perusal of the essay establishes that Dr. WINTERNITZ had composed it as an outline before writing the detailed chapter in the "HISTORY OF INDIAN LITERA