Book Title: Puratan Jain Vakya Suchi 01
Author(s): Jugalkishor Mukhtar
Publisher: Veer Seva Mandir Trust

View full book text
Previous | Next

Page 24
________________ INTRODUCTION they are useful aids in settling the relatives ages of different authors It is by tracing these quotations we are often able to put broad but definite limits to the periods of many of our authors A scholar cannot be expected to commit the verses of all the known works to memory and thus be able to spot and trace the quotations at times his memory may come to his resque, but that is an accident. He must be helped by indices of verses If he once collects the quotations and arranges them alphabetically, such indices will give him great help in tracing their sources, they will not only save his time but also increase the speed of his work and guarantee a security to his results. Pt Jugalkıshore Mukhtar is wellknown to students of Indian literature For the last few decades he has devoted all his time and energies to researches in Jaina literature, and the results of his studies have an abiding value His monograph on Samantabhadra is a model essay containing valuable information, the Anekanta edited by him occupies a prominent place among the Hindi journals devoted to research, and the Virasevamandıra founded by him inspires such universal and humanitarian principles that any nation would be proud of it His austere habits, intellectual acumen, earnest outlook on life, uncurbed zeal for weighing the evidence and arriving at the Truth and steady perseverence have made him a great research scholar, an ornament for the intellectual society. It is but natural that, in course of his studies, he would realize the importance and feel the need of various in truments of research like the present - work for which students of Indian literature in general and of Jaina literature in particular will feel much obliged to him. The present volume, Puratana-Jaina-vakya-sucı, Part I. or Digambara Jaina Prakrta-padyanukramanika is as its name indicates, an alphabetical Index of verses from Digambara Jaina works in Praktit. This part includes verses from some 'three scores of works, in Prakrit and Apabhramsa, composed or compiled by authoritative authors who flourished during the last two thousand years The works of Sıvarya, Vattakera, Kundakunda and Jadivasaha etc. form the Pro-Canon of the Jainas, and they occupy an important position in Jaina literature. Most of them can be assigned to the early centuries of Christian era, and the matter contained therein might be even of still earlier age Verses from them are often quoted, and such an Index was an urgent desideratum. A compilation like this has a very little human interest and readable matter, but it has to be remembered that its utility is very great, end it has cost patient and careful labour of months together, it not years The editors and publishers have so much obliged the researchers in Jaina literature that words are perhaps inadequate to express their sense of gratitude In conclusion, I heartıly thank my revered friend Bt Jugalkıshoreji for giving me thus opportunity to associate myself with this useful, publication which, no doubt, would be used as an instrument of research of superlative importance by all those scholars who are working in the fields of Prakrit and Jaina literature. Kolhapur, 25th May 1945 A. N UPADHYE.

Loading...

Page Navigation
1 ... 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 ... 519