Jinamanjari 1998 04 No 17

Author(s): Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication

Page 91

Recently, local newspapers from Solapur like Kēsari, Sanchāra, Lōkamata and Pudāri Taruna have reported about this discovery with photographs.
- Dr. S.R. Patil, Muruma Post, Umaraga Taluk, Osmanabad, MR. In Gurudeva, A Fortnightly Jain Newspaper, 15 September 1997.
PROF. H.M.S. RAO, AN EDUCATOR AND SCHOLAR OF KANNADA LITERATURE, IS DEAD.
Prof. H.M. Shankaranarayana Rao who hailed from a small town in the family of Brahmin priests in Karnataka rose to a position of power and prominence in the early sixties as educator, writer and publisher of academic books in Kannada language. He has published over 30 works to his credit. The well known Jain works - the Vaddarādhne and the Yashodharana Kathe published by him were graduate text books of the universities of Mysore and Karnataka.
Prof. H.M.S. was an ardent advocate of the promotion of Kannada literature all his life, and equally supported Prakrit and Jain studies that were part of the Kannada classics. He died on Wednesday, 17 September 1997 at the age of 84.
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Prof. H.S. Harishankar, University of Mysore,
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DR. P. B. BADIGER, PROFESSOR OF JAINALOGY AND PRAKRIT, UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE PASSED AWAY.
Dr. Badiger, who hailed from Maharashtra and a student of Dr. A.N. Upadhye, was a very well known Prakritist and has over seventeen publications to his credit. It may be noted here that in the last issue of Jinamanjari, October 1997, his paper - The Vajjalaggaṁ: A Prakrit Work of Jayavallabha has appeared.
Dr. Badiger died recently in Mysore, India at the age of 67. He was a well wisher of Jinamanjari, and whole heartedly supported it.
- Gommatavani, Sravanabelagola, 15 January 1998.
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