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RĀJANAGARA-NĀM JINĀLAYO (Guj.) by Jitendra B. Shah and Chandrakant Kadiya, Sheth Anandji Kalyanji, Ahmedabad, 1997, pp. 22 + 440, Rs. 200/-.
The firm of Sheth Anandji Kalyanji published a set of three works, entitled “Jaina-tirtha-sarva-saṁgraha”, in V.S. 2009 (1964), in which was given the information about all the Jaina temples of India. This work was out of print for a long time. Sheth Shri Shrenikbhai Kasturbhai wished to get this work updated. In April 1996, a project to this end was drafted, and it was proposed to compile all the information regarding the Jaina temples of Rājanagar, i.e. Ahmedabad. The work of personally visiting these temples and gathering all the minute details was carried out by a team of eight workers, headed by the two scholars - Dr. Jitendra B. Shah and Shri Chandrakant Kadiya.
Initially, the information about the Jaina temples of Rājanagara was given only in five pages in the form of a brief note in the JTSS, mentioned above. But the present project was rather ambitious, and as a result much more material, and many more details about these Jain temples, also about those that were built only recently, was collected, collated and compiled in this work.
This excellent and highly beautiful work is divided into fifteen chapters, the first being Introductory and the last one the Bibliography. The rest of the chapters are devoted to the following topics : (1) The Cintāmani Pārsvanātha of Saraspur; (2) The Hathisiṁhani Vāļi Temple : (3) A Short Note on the Ancient Jaina temples of Rājanagar; (5) The Caityas destroyed; (6) The Sreşthis of Rājanagar; (7) A table of the Jaina temples of Rājanagar; (8) A list of Jaina temples according to the order of the Tirthankaras; (9) A list of the Jaina temples as per the Samvat chronological order; (10) The domestic Jaina temples of Rājanagara; (11) The Upāśrayas of Rājanagara; (12) The Jaina Sanghas of Rājanagara; and (13) The Āmbila-shalas of Rājanagara. N.M.K.
DHARMABINDU-PRAKARANAM edited by Muni Shri Jambuvijay, Shri Jina Shasana Aradhana Trust, Mumbai, V. S. 2050, pp. 3 + 47 + 6 + 3 + 305, Rs. 150/This edition of the Dharmabindu of Haribhadra Sūri, along with the Vrtti of Municandrasūri, is printed in the Pothi style, but instead of counting the numbers of folios, each page has been numbered independently and serially. In his Foreword, the editor has given in English the information regarding the original Mss., viz., J1, J, K1, K, L, and D, he has utilized for this edition; all these are palm-leaf Mss., written approximately in the 13th century A. D. He
