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As for the scope of topics visualized for the Nirgrantha, the articles pertaining to the following branches of Jinistic studies will be welcome :
1. The Nirgrantha Agamas (Northern tradition) and Iso-agamic works
(Southern tradition) works and the exegetical literature on all of these works : (a) Linguistic, metrical, and structural aspects induding textual studies
involving tracts of origin, stratifications and laminations within a given chapter, etc.
(b) Doctrines, dogmatics, concepts, tenets, scholastics and monastic
discipline : Comparisons with those of the Brahmanical and Buddhist systems:
(c) Historical aspects such as dating of the āgamas, their parts, passages or
sub-sections and strata and laminae therefrom and those that pertain to the various categories of the commentarial works : Also will be included in this category the non-agamic works pertaining to several different areas - doctrinal, philosophical, epistemological, and of logic.
II. Nirgrantha authors – ancient, pre-medieval, and medieval - their biographical
details, works and their content, and their dating.
III. Nirgrantha philosophy, ontology, metaphysics, and epistemology.
IV. Purānas, caritas, prabandhas, narratives, and myths and legends; the literary
criticism of such works and their historical evaluation.
V. Hymnology and compositions relating to the sacred tirthas, caityas, and special
images.
VI. Cultural data as gleaned inside the Nirgrantha works of various periods and of
varying categories and descriptions.
VII. Nirgrantha epigraphy : inscriptions (eulogies and other records) on stone and
on metal images.
VIII. Nirgrantha religious art, iconography, iconology, sculpture, architecture, painting,
woodwork, and ivory-work : historical investigation and aesthetic aspects of Jaina art.
As a matter of policy, book reviews will not be included, but review-papers will be welcome.
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