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पुद्गल-कोश be used by all scholars who want to work on Jainism, particularly on Mahavira's life.
The book is well-printed and carefully executed. The printing mistakes are exceptionally few. The book is well bound as well. I hope this book will receive good demand from the libraries of the world. University of Calcutta 20th Sept 1984
-SATYA RANJAN BANERJEE
The present work is the third volume in the series of Cyclopaedia of Jainism proposed to be published on behalf of Late Shri Mohan Lal Banthia. The first volume was the Cyclopaedia of Lesya and the second volume was the cyclopaedia of kriya. Both these volumes promed to be the complete cyclopaedia of two highly technical subjects of Jain Philosophy. Now, this third volume, which is an exhaustive collection of material related to the life of Beagawan Mahavira. whose birth-name was Vardhamana.
The learned compilers of this cyclopaedia work, Late Shri Mohan Lal Banthia and Shri Shrichand Choraria, have taken pains to collect all the available material concerning the life of Bhagawan Mahavira from all literary sources--the Jain canons, the commentaries on the Jain canons, the later non-canonical Prakrit and Sanskrit works, the Buddhist Pali texts, as well as other available sources,
The present work is only the first part of the volume, which will be published in three parts. The decimal system used for classification of topics signifie a scientific approach in topical classification and makes it easy to find out any sub-topic.
It is definitely an unique work on the life of Bhagawan Mahavira, elucidating simultaneously all the aspects including those of historical significance. The combedeo descrve congratulations for their hard labour. The cyclopaedia publications in the series will become a valuable ropository of Jain learning for ages to come.
-Muni Shri Mahendra Kumar ( Disciple of Acharya Shri Tulsi )
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