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Appeal to the Distinguished Scholars Your quarterly research journal, śramaņa is now being well recieved by the academic world for its quality content and regular publication. This is evident from the comments we receive from readers as well as MLBD News letter mentioning several times the articles published in Śramaņa in the column ‘Articles of Jainology'.
To enhance further the effectiveness and quality of research published, the Advisory Board of Šramaņa has decided that in the year 2013, the four quarterly issues will be theme based as mentioned below: Sl. No. Issue
Topic 1 January-March, 2013 Jain History, Culture, Art & Architecture 2 April-June, 2013
Jain Agam & Philosophy 3 July-September, 2013 Jain Ethics & Karma doctrine 4. October-December 2013 Contemporary Relevance of Jain Principles We invite your scholarly research papers in Hindi or English) in any of the above areas of academic pursuit to make these four publications successful. We also invite your frequent comments about the articles published in Śramana so that these comments could be published under column Reader's view of the journal to make it more perfect. While sending your contributions, please note the following points: 1. The papers for, first issue could be sent latest by 151h
December, 2012, second issue by 15th March, 2013, third issue by 15th June, 2013 and fourth issue by 15th Sept. 13. Regarding the references please quote the book, author, publisher, edition, publication year and page numbers. Please attach a declaration that the paper sent by you is your own original contribution and unpublished. Please send soft copies of your papers at our e-mail IDs: rahulsingh@pv-edu.in or ruchirai@pv-edu.in
