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Studies in Jainology, Prakrit
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Paper presented at the 25th Session of the All India Oriental Conference held at the Jadavpur University, Calcutta, in October, 1969 and published in the Journal of Karnatak University, (Hum.), Vol.XIV, 1970. Dr.A.N.Upadhye has made a masterly survey of the narrative clemens in the early Jaina literature at the background of the early Indian narrative literauture in general and has noted the various tendencies and types of the later Jaina narrative literature : Intro. to Brhat- kathākosa, Singhĩ Jaina Series No.17, Bombay, 1948, pp.6- 47. (i) An authentic text of this work (with introduction and Hindi Translation) has been published for the first time in the Sivaraja Jaina Series, No.14, Solapur, 1964, its editors being Dr.A.N.Upadhye, Dr.Hiralal Jain and Pt.B.Siddhantashastri. (ii) All references made to this Punyasrava-kathākośa (Pkk) in this paper are to this edition. (i) His date is not yet settled, However, the General Editors, Dr.Upadhye and Dr.Jain, have shown that he must have composed this work between 991 and 1331 A.D: Intro. to Pkk, p.32. (ii) Nothing is known about his place so far. That he knew Kannada well is beyond doubt. Intro. to Pkk, p.9. Vide Karnataka Kavicarite, I, Bangalore 1961, pp.463-465 Vide Intro. to Pkk. pp.27-30. For details on these points vide Intro. to Pkk, pp-18-19.
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