Teacher of Humanity

Author(s): C S Mallinath
Publisher: Pulchandji Ved

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Jaina-tattra-dig-darsana (on Jaina philosophy) are some of his important works which have gone through several editions.
AS AN EDITOR AND CRITIC
For the purpose of bringing out authoritative and exhaustive editions of the vast and varied branches of the Jain Literature, Vijaya Dharma Suri started the Yashovijaya Jain Granthmala in Benares which is now being continued in Bhavnagar. During his lifetime the great Acharya himself edited several works of the series which include important works on history, philosophy, poetry, grammar, logic, rhetoric, lexicography, astronomy and other sciences. His edition of the Yogasastra of Sri Hemachandra Acharya published in the Bibliothica Indica revealed to the world his ability as a philologist and an erudite critic. The first fasciculus of this edition was attacked in a rather unmerciful way by an Italian scholar Dr. F. Belloni-Fillipi in his review of the book contributed to ZDMG. But in his Rejoinder to the Italian Professor's criticism, which appeared in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1910) Vijaya Dharma Suri displayed such a sound erudition and such a mastery of his subject that he was not only fully justified before the eyes of the world, but every one was also convinced that the Acharya had gone to work with all the care