Outlines of Jainism

Author(s): J L Jaini, F W Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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PRELIMINARY NOTE
position of studies in relation thereto should be viewed in the light of Professor Jacobi's articles in the Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics.
The present volume of Outlines is issued by the Jain Literature Society in advance of it series designed to consist principally, but not exclusively, of translations from authoritative texts. We are not, indeed, without convenient manuals in English treating of the subject, such as Dr. J. Burgess' edition of Bühler's On the Indian Sect of the Jainas (London, 1903). Mr. A. B. Latthe's An Introduction to Jainism (Bombay, 1905), Mr. U. D. Barodia's History and Literature of Jainism (Bombay,. 1909), Mr. Hirachand Liladhar Jhaveri's First Principles of Jaina Philosophy (London, 1910), and Mr. H. Warren's Jainism (Madras, 1912); to which there has recently been added the substantial treatise of Mrs. Sinclair Stevenson (The Beurt of Jainism, Oxford and London, 1915, following upon the same author's Notes on Jodern Jainism, Oxford and Surat, 1910): but there is still, we think, room for a work like the present, furnishing in a moderate compass a thorough exposition of the system and its terminology ; while the Texts (in several cases Digambara) which follow the Outlines will be