Outline of Avasyaka Literature

Author(s): Ernst Leumann, George Baumann
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Introductory essay and tools by Nalini Balbir
Indian Antiquary 23, July 1894, p. 169 n. 2 and, for further details on Klatt's publications, Nalini Balbir, "Samayasundara's Sāmācārī-śataka and Jain Sectarian Divisions in the Seventeenth Century", n. 1 p. 253 in Essays in Jaina Philosophy and Religion (ed. P. Balcerowicz), Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 2003.
p. I [TR32 and n. *) "the inscriptional enquiries": references are to the following epigraphical contributions by Georg Bühler: “On the authenticity of the Jaina tradition”, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes vol. I (1887), pp. 165180; "Further proofs of the Authenticity of the Jaina Tradition", WZKM vol. II (1888), pp. 141-147; vol. III (1889), pp. 233-240; vol. IV (1890), pp. 313-331; “New Excavations in Mathurâ", WZKM vol. V (1891), pp. 59-63; “Dr. Führer's Excavations at Mathura”, WZKM vol. V (1891), pp. 175-180. All these investigations prove the historicity of the Jaina tradition, show that Jainism is not an offshoot of Buddhism and that there was an organized Jaina community already during the Mathurā period. Information about religious orders, monks and nuns is systematically collected from the inscriptions.
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p. I [1932-33] "the biography of Hemacandra by Bühler": G. Bühler, Über das Leben des Jaina Mönchs Hemachandra, des Schülers des Devachandra aus der Vajrasākhā, Vienna, 1889. The Jains could not remain indifferent to a comprehensive work devoted to one of their most admired and beloved figures, the kalikāląsarvajña Hemacandra, and one of their richest period of history in Gujarat, the reign of Kumārapāla. Bühler's work was translated into English by Prof. Dr. Manilal Patel, with a foreword by M. Winternitz and published in the Singhi Jain Series (vol. 11), Shantiniketan, 1936.
p. I [1034-35] "the contributions from India by Gopal Bhandarkar, Shridhar Bhandarkar ... by Pathak and Hoernle": - Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar (1837-1925) can be considered as a founder of modern Indology in India and a great intellectual of pre-independence India. He had mastered both traditional Indian scholarship and the scientific critical method and working methods as evolved in the West. His work was much appreciated in the West and his study on Vaişnavism, Saivism and Minor Religious Systems was published as a volume of the Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde. The aspect of his vast activity which is specially relevant in the present context is his effort to raise awareness internationally of the wealth of Indian manuscripts. See for more details, Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar as an Indologist. A Symposium edited by R.N. Dandekar, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, 1976, which includes a biographical sketch and a table of contents of the four volumes of Bhandarkar's Collected work. - Shridhar Ramakrishna Bhandarkar continued several of the activities undertaken by R.G. Bhandarkar, among them the tours in search for manuscripts: see, for instance, his Report of a Second Tour in Search of Sanskrit Mss. made in Rajputana and Central India in 1904-05 and 1905-06, Bombay, 1907. - Pathak is likely to be K.B. Pāthak who contributed several articles on the history of the Jaina church based on literary data. Among them are “The date of Mahāvīra's Nirvāna, as determined in Saka 1175” (Indian Antiquary 12, 1883, pp. 21-22), using a passage from a Srāvakācāra ascribed to Māghanandin, and "A Passage in the Jain Harivamsa relating to the Guptas” (Indian Antiquary 15, 1886, pp. 141-143).
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