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illustrated Gujarāti book on the principal Jaina Tirthas of India (Palitana, 1958) and the Vijaya Vallabhasūri Jaina Säbityamālā has published a book, Bangāla-kā Ādi Dharma (Bombay, 1958), which is a collection of threc papers-two in Hindi and one in English-dealing with the history of Jainism in Bengal. Jaina Community—a Social Study by Dr. A. Sangve ( Bombay, 1959) was his Ph.D. thesis in Sociology. It is an exhaustive survey and a good guide for all further studies.
Mr. P. B. Desai, author of Jainism in South India (Sholapur, 1957), describing the historical role of Jainism in Andhra, Tāmil Nādu and Karnataka, has written an interesting paper on Jainism in Kerala supplying some now information (Journal of Indian History, XXXIII. 5, August 1957, published in 1958). Dr. Daslaratha Sharma lias made an attempt to prove that Kālakācārya was a chief of the Kālaka people (Indian Historical Quarterly, XXXIII. 4, December 1957). I have collected a number of historical references to the Pascāsarā Pārsvanātha temple built at Päțan by Vanarāja, its founder, in the 8th century A.D. (VVSG).
Lastly I may refer to bibliographics and catalogics, which arc inevitable tools of research and investigation. Prakāśita Jaina Sahitya (Delhi, 1958 ) by Pt. Pannalal and Dr. Jyotiprasad claims to be a bibliography of published Jaina literature. This is no place for a detailcd review, but I may be allowed to state that it is a very incomplete list. Nowhere do we find in it the names of very well-known publications like the Trişaşțisalākāpuruşacarita, Siddhalıcma, Prabandhacintāmaņi, Jūānabindu and many others. Jaina Gurjara Kavio, vols. I-II arc noted, but we do not find the mention of vol. III, published in Tom. IIcmacandrīcārya by Dhūmaketu is mentioned, but there is no reference to the Hemasamikṣā, its companion-volumc, by Prof. M. C. Modi. Life of Hemacandrūcārya is registered, but the name of its celebrated author, Dr. G. Bühler, is curiously left out. In the case of a majority of books in the English section the place and year of publication are not mentioned.
