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Nakamura wrote in his review, “The author's achievements are wonderful and successful in many respects. Hithertofore, Jain logic has been a field which non-Indian scholars have approached very seldom, in spite of copiousness and voluminousness of its literature, and in this respect I would say the author has made a remarkable contribution... This work has opened a gate to philosophical understanding which is essential to the history of ideas. Philosophy East and West said, “The book is obviously a ‘must for anyone interested in the Jaina logicians; it is also of particular value for anyone interested in the Buddhist logicians from a rather novel point of view largely ignored in twentiethcentury scholarship. The reader will find a wealth of information and a wide-ranging summary of many fascinating problems of Indian philosophy.”
He resigned from the Directorship of the L.D. Institute in 1984 so that he could devote full time for research. After his retirement in 1991 he independently started work on Sanskrit books and manuscripts. From his savings of lifetime he published seven encyclopedias on Indian literature and philosophy. At present he has several brilliant works to his credit. The following are his works in English: Essay in Indian Philosophy, Samantabhadra's Aptamímasa – Critique of an Authority, A Study of Jayanta Bhatta’s Nyaymanjari - A Mature Sanskrit work on Indian Logic(in three parts). And the following works are in Gujarati: Sankhya- Yoga, Nyaya- Vaisesika, Bharatiya Tattvajnana, Sankara Vedanta – Avidya, Bauddha DharmaDarsana. He has also given an excellent English translation of Muni Nyayavijayaji's voluminous important Gujarati work JainaDarsana (English title: Jaina Philosophy and Religion). Moreover, he has edited, from the old original manuscripts, the unpublished Nyayamanjari-Granthibhanga. In 2000, he delivered a series of three lectures in Guajarati on Conception of Sraddha, Matijnana and Kevalajnana in Jaina Philosophy under the auspices of B.J. Institute of Learning and Research, Ahmedabad. Their Hindi version is also published. He translated into lucid Gujarati Mm. Vidhushekhar Bhattacharya's Basic Conception of Buddhism.
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