Narrative Tale in Jain Literature

Author(s): Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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kāvya-śāstra-vinodena kālo gacchati dhimatām/
“By studying poetry the time of the learned men passes quickly."
Keeping in mind the thrust area of this Seminar which is Narrative Tale in Jain literature, a monograph which is a collection of articles on Jain stories scattered in different parts of literature is prepared as a model according to the need of the Seminar. The stories are sometimes very short, but they are collected in order to show how even in short stories the interesting factor of human life is adumbrated. In editing this corpus I have followed a little editorial discipline which is very insignificant in this particular case. The normal diacritical marks are followed, except in a rare case for some historical reasons, old systems are kept as they are for the sake of history. I am grateful to my predecessors from whose books I have made this anthology.
Finally I should say that I must thank the President Professor Biswanath Banerjee and the General Secretary Professor Ramakanta Chakrabarty and the Treasurer Proféssor Dilip Coomer Ghose who have urged me to prepare this monograph befitting the theme of this Seminar. If this monograph creates any interest among the scholars, I shall consider my labour well-rewarded.
karmaṇyeva adhikaro me
5th January, 2008
Satya Ranjan Banerjee Philological Secretary The Asiatic Society