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Editorial Note
With great pleasure, but also with a considerable amount of trepidation we wish to present to the scholars of Jain Philosophy and Literature this edited collection of papers presented at an International Conference organized by this Institute in the year 1987. Unfortunately it took a long time to collect the papers and to do a sort of preliminary editing on them. In 1999 the Institute contacted Prof. N. M. Kansara, the renowned Jainologist who was working at the Jain Viswa Bharati, Ladnun at that time. He did the job of editing wonderfully well within less than a year and submitted the quasi-final version in the year 2000. They were typeset at the Institute and were awaiting final revision so that they may be sent to press. It could not be done due to various unfavourable circumstances prevailing in the past years and the manuscript was awaiting its fate lying incognito in a file cabinet.
After I took over as the Director of the BLII the collection was salvaged from oblivion, re-set in computer and I went through the whole script picking up and removing the printing mistakes. Also the linguistic expressions in some papers had to be rectified and streamlined. The main problem that I faced during the editing was the non-availability of the original scripts. The final editing, therefore, had to be carried out without having recourse to the originals.
Strangely enough, only the papers presented in the English language were taken up for inclusion in this volume whereas the Hindi papers were excluded. Whether they were
