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VIDYAPEETH'S LATEST IMPORTANT PUBLICATION
Scientific contents in Prāksta canons : by : Dr. N.L. Jain, Price Rs. 200/- (Paperback) and Rs. 300/- (Hard Bound), pp. 584, 1996.
'Scientific contents in Prāksta canons' is the latest publicaton of the Vidyapeeth, under the series of its Research Oriented Publications. This volume is a materalised form of the project entitled 'Scientific contents in Prāksta literature, approved by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi. There has always been two catagories of the scholar traditionalists and moderates. It is the latter who carry the torch of knowledge, ahead. The scientific age has resulted in increase of moderate scholars with scientific outlook presuming knowledge as ever flowing river.
The early Jaina canons contain about one third of their contents related with physical world. The above approach directs to treat these contents as specific to those periods and as amile stone in development of thought process. This book is an attempt to induce this approach to cover the contents in the areas of Chemistry, Physics, Botany, Zoology, Food Sciences and Medical Sciences. This contribution of the author will convince the reader that religious themes have also been undergoing changes like scientific concepts and therefore, Science should not be degraded on this score. It also leads us to presume that the Jainas have had better intellect in the
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