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PREFACE
My children celebrated the golden jubilee of my marriage in 2002. I felt that a scholar should celebrate it literarily. This led to the nucleation of the collection of these writings. Many of my friends and children concurred with this idea. Later, the appearance of some publications of this nature (of course, on specific occasion) concretized it. They are designated as writings as they include not only my academic papers but also those papers published or otherwise, in Indian as well as foreign journals, but also write-ups on some subjects of general interest to me with a specific bent of mind. Most of the papers and articles have been written out of my academic hobby, many of which later became presentations or invited papers.
There are 196 papers and articles and 32 books written by me covering 20 topics related with Jainology and other subjects. They cover ten times the pages of this book. They are listed in appendices. The 44 writings presented here are representative ones covering 14 major topics involving religion to science, Indian to foreign and biography to autobiography with a specific scientific and analytical bias (containing graphs and tables for illustration). They were written at different periods varying in between 1966 to 2004. Their contents should, therefore, be taken with respect to their times of write-up. Their contents might have improved due to later researches.
These articles were written and are collected in both the languages - Hindi and English. However, the subject matter in them has been selected with a view not to repeat a similar topic in other section. All these papers/articles form three categories:
(i) Presented in National and International seminars 25% (ii) Published in Indian and foreign journals and magazines 45% (iii) Unpublished papers/articles
30% The articles published in many felicitation volumes have not been included here. Of course, there are three articles forming part of some books. The papers on different aspects of Jainology have an analytical and modernized approach in tune with the current scientific age. Many of them will seem not to be in tune with traditional style, but
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