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REVIEWS Narayan M. Kansara
JAIN STUDIES IN HONOUR OF JOZEF DELEU, edited by Rudy Smet and Kenji Watanabe. Honno-tomasha, Tokyo, 1993, pp. xvi + 504. This work is Felicatation Volume in honour of Prof. Deleu, whose students recall his stimulating lessons in all fields of Indology. He first became known for his work on the literary genre called prabandha which flourished in Jain circles during the Middle Ages. He succeeded in calling attention to the importance of the prabandhas “as (semi-) histriographic writings" and to the need for furtlier research on the literary features of this genre. In this field J. Deleu can be seen as a forerunner. He was fortunate enough to be able to work with the eminent specialist on Jain cnonical literature, Walther Schubring, and the later expressed his appreciation of Delue's competence and his affection for this gifted scholar and his fine personality. Deleu was awarded the Doctorate Honories Causa of the Rijksuniversiteit. He was entrusted the task of publishing Schubring's posthumous edition of the Näydhanmakahão (1978). His very useful contribution is to the Worterbuch der Mythologie, on “Die Mythologie des Jinismus" (1978). Deleu's masterpriece is his book Viyāhapannatti (Bhagavai), the fifth Anga of the Jaina Canon, with Introduction, Critical Analysis, Commentary and Indexes. Following the text scrupulously he gives a critical and intelligible account of its contents; moreover, in an elaborate introduction he also sheds light on questions relating to the composition of the text; he further addes valuable indexes of proper names and technical terms ocurring in the treatise. According to J. Deleu, "the first aim of studies in the Jaina Canon should be the critical edition of its texts". Preface by Colette Caillat, some reminiscences by Charles Willemen and Bio-data and Selected Bibligraphy by Chris Van Alphen-De Lauwer comprise the first three articles about J. Deleu, and his contribution to Indological studies. The next section entitled 'Jain Studies during the last two decades', contains four articles, viz., The Jaina Agama Series by Muni Jambuvijaya, Jainology in Western Publications I by Klaus Bruhn and Il by Colette Cailat and The Study of Jaina Art by Klaus Bruhn. Then follow the articles, in all eighteen, by scholars like Nalini Balbir, Bansidhar Bhatt, H.C. Bhayan, Willem B. Bollée, Hohanes Bronkhorst, Klaus Bruhn, Colette Caillat, Paus Dundas, Junko Sakamoto-Goto, Phyllis Granoff, Padmanabh S. Jaini, Colin M. Myrhofer, K.R. Norman, Suzuko Ohira, Gustav Roth, Frank Van Den Bossche, Kenji Watanabe and Albrecht Wezler. Muni Jambuvijaya has pointed out that like the Zedic tradition which has posited a Purusa, the old Jaina tradition has posited a Vidya-Puruşa or Srauta-Purusa and the various branches of knowledge are viewed as parts Cangas) and sub-parts (upängas) of his body; it is thus that the fundamental class of the Jaina Āgamas is known as Anga. The Agamas, at first, only included the Gamipitaka, or Dvādasānga, because the ganadharas are
