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Research Institute, Hyderabad has taken up the painstaking but noble task of documenting, describing and systematically analysing the Jaina shrines, and sculpturas of Gwalior in the present monograph. He traced out the history of Gwalior right from stone age to modern times. The importance of the site could be well understood through this book. Dr. Shastri has rendered a real service to Jaina art and archictecture by evaluting the rock shelters of the Fortress of Gwalior.
Jaina Theory of Mutiple Facets of Reality and Truth (Anekāntavāda), Edited by Nagin J. Shah, Published by Motilal Banarasidas and B.L. Institute of Indology, Delhi, First edition 2000, p.148, Price- Rs. 200/
The present volume is a collection of the articles submitted at the Seminar on "Jain Logic and Epistemology" organised by the BLI in 1990 under the stewardship of the late Dr. B.K. Matilal, Emeritus Professor at Oxford, U.K. The writers of these articles are B.K. Matilal, K.C. Bhattacharya, Atsushi Uno, U.M. Kulkarni, V. Venkatachalam, Pradeep Gokhle, D.S. Kothari, L.V. Joshi, Dayanand Bhargava, Bhagchandra Jain Bhaskar and Dr. Ramjee Singh. The volume is wirthwhile for both libraries and individual.
Bulletin d'Etudes Indiennes, Editor: Nalini Balbir, Paris, Volume 16, 1998, pp. 361-363.
19. Hazarimull Banthia, Dr. Luitgard Soni, German Jain Śrāvikā Dr. Charlotte Krause, Her Life & Literature, Vol. I. Compiled by Pārsvanatha Vidyāpīṭha, Varanasi 1999 (Pārśwanatha Vidyāpītha Series No. 119), XXXVII+627 p., 14x22, 500 rupees; $ 40- Nalini Balbir.
The intellectual development and the works of the German Indologist Dr. Charlotte Krause have been presented in the previous volume of this journal by Mrs. L. Soni, ("Charlotte Krause 1895 - 1980; Indologist and Jain scholar," pp. 299-310). These are reprinted in the book under review (p. xxv-xxvii), the publication of which is largely due to the efforts of H.M. Banthia, the enlightened Jaina layman; who set his heart upon making his compatriots and others better acquainted with the work of European scholars interested in his religion. He has already shown this by working towards the rehabilitation of Luigo Pio Gessitori, an Italian contemporary of Charlotte Krause who, like her, left Europe
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