Vaishali Institute Research Bulletin 2

Author(s): G C Chaudhary
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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of the universities and also in the establishment of isolated and far apart Institutions for the study of each. A student who aspires to specialise in one cannot afford to overlook some basic knowledge of the other. So the syllabi at the entrance stage has to be liberally comprehensive. Similarly the Institutions for specialised studies in each can function more harmoniously in one campus as the constituent units of one complex. Recently the Government of Bihar have set up Institutions for higher studies in Pali, Prakrit, Sanskrit, History, Hindi and Arabic. But the Institutions are scatterd at distant places. The aim of the Government would have been fully realised if these would have been in one campus with complete residential facilities. This would have also averted a great deal of wastage.
Lastly, a word of warning. In their zeal to popularise the subject, scholars in the field should not make it very cheap. At present it is generally seen that Prakrit education is stipendary. In such a system pseudo students, more interested in filling up their vacant hours, getting stipend and, as a side issue, degrees also than in acquiring knowledge infiltrate into the field. They presume that they are doing a favour to the subject by condescending to study it and so they deserve to be rewarded with an honourable degree without any strenuous industry for the same. This trend has to be ruthlessly stopped if we want Prakrit studies to be duly recognized and valued in the society.
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