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Studies in Jainology, Prakrit
and artificial. It embodies a mine of information and data that can take us towards more or less a complete religious, social and political picture of India of the period that could notably contribute its worthy mite to the civilization of the world. This means that for the reconstruction of the history of cultural India, Prakrit literature provides rare and significant details. And a good knowledge of our past culture, we should remember, invariably helps us to evaluate our present and plan for the future. Hence the study of Prakrit language and literature is indispensable for us and more so in the present days that are facing deep moral crisis and considerable loss of humanitarian values.
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