Jinamanjari 1998 09 No 18

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

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Jinamañjari, Volume 18, No.2, October 1998
NEWS DIGEST
FOURTH ANNUAL SEMINAR ON PHILOSOPHER - SAINT ĀCĀRYA KUNDAKUNDA AT L.B. SHASTRI UNIVERSITY NEW DELHI, MARCH 18-19, 1998.
Prakritists Dr. Rajaram Jain and Dr. Devendra Kumar Sastri, were two prominent scholars who presented papers at the gathering. Origin and Development of Sauraseni Prakrit was the theme of Dr. Rajaram Jain and DR. Sastri's theme was Sauraseni Prākrit Literature.
Professor Vachaspati Upadhyay, Vice-Chancellor of Sastri University, made announcement of the independent faculty of Prākrit at the university beginning the academic year 1998-99.
Currently, L. B. Shastri University gives Certificate and Diploma courses in Prākrit.
- Prākrit Vidya, Jan-Mar 1998
Quarterly Research Journal 18-B Institutional Area New Delhi-110067.
JAINISM AND EARLY BUDDHISM IN THE INDIAN CULTURAL CONTEXT: An International Conference at Lund University, Sweden, In Honour of Prof. Padmanabh S. Jaini, June 4 Thru 8, 1998.
The Four day event was attended by scholars from Europe, USA and Japan. Papers on many aspects of Jainism presented at the conference are:
A Jaina Version of the Simhalāvadāna by Siegfried Linehard of Stockholm University, Haribhadea's Lalitavistāra by Paul Dundas of Edinburgh University, Social Change and the Privatisation of Indian Jainism at the End of the Twentieth Century by Marcus Banks of Oxford University, The Añcalagaccha Viewed From Inside and From Outside by Nalin Balbir of Universite de Paris, A Comparative