Jinamanjari 1998 09 No 18

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

Page 71

Shodadarsh, Lucknow, India.
THE JAINA SANCTUARIES OF GWALIOR by Dr. T.V.G. Sastri,. Publisher is Kundakunda Jnanapitha, 584 M.G. Road, Indore-452001, India. ISSBN # 81-86933-12-3. Price $50.00.
The book is a rare record of the Jain sanctuaries of Gwalior in the central part of India. It gives a systematic study and presentation of the richness of Jain shrines and their sculptural glory untold to the present.
The author, Dr. T.V.G. Sastri, is an eminent archaeologist as well as a scholar related to Jainism. His first book was Vaddamanu, the work on the third -second B.C.E. Jain archaeological site in the Indian southern state of Andhra.
- Arhat Vacana, April 1998.
JAINISM: A PICTORIAL GUIDE by Kurt Titze. As reported about this publication in the last issue of Jinamanjari, the publication was released in the month of June 1988 by Motilal Banarsidass, New Delhi. The book is 260 pages in art paper, 11 by 9, and contains a tonal of 325 photographs of which 50 are in colour.
-K.C. Jain, Ratnatrya Education & Research Institute
C-1/47 Safdarjung Development Area, New Delhi-110016.
INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED PRAKRIT AND JAIN SCHOLAR LATE JAGDISH CHANDRA JAIN IS REMEMBERED
The Govt. of India brought out special postal stamps on 28 January 1998 in recognition and honour of Late Professor Jagdish Chandra Jain, 1909 - 1994. The releasing of this special stamps was befittingly held at Bhandarkar Research Institute, Poona.
- Arhat Vacana, April 1998, Indore
REVIVAL AND REESTABLISHMENT OF JAINA MATHA AT POLUR IN TAMILNADU IN SOUTH INDIA
A few centuries after Lord Mahavira, the establishment of dharmapithas - centres of religious activities lead by erudite men for Jaina communities were said to have come into existence. And one
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