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"... In this thesis approved for the Ph.D. degree of B. H. U. Varanasi in 1954 the author has utilised mainly the Jain sources with a view to reconstruct, examine, check up or supplement the political history of the various dynasties from the 7th to 12th centuries A.D. It is a painstaking study in which maximum material relating to the subject has been brought together from many a source, ... in Sanskrit, Prakrit and Apabhramsa.... The political history of most of the dynasties is already known from other literary and epigraphic sources but in this specialised work it will be seen what light the Jain sources throw on the dynasty as a whole or on the individual rulers, their achievements and principal political events of their reigns. In this study a happy combination is the attention paid to geography with respect to the original seat of the particular royal family, its capital or the identification of ancient place names, e.g. Kalyana-Kataka (pp. 218-223).
Part II of the thesis appertains to a study of the polity and administration which evolved during this important period...
I pay tribute to this study which covers a wide range of literary and epigraphic sources and which gives evidence of careful and accurate presentation of the material."
DR. V. S. AGRAWALA From the FOREWORD
"A very interesting and useful piece of historical and literary research. The author has put in good deal of industry and the book is a valuable treatise.”
PROF. N. A. NIKAM, Ex-Vice-Chancellor, University of Mysore
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