Showing all 4 books
The book Jain Studies-Selected Papers is a series of 25 research articles. All the articles deal with various aspects of Jainism. A few of them are related to Prakrit which was originally presumed to have been used by early preceptors of Jainism. Some other articles are based on the study of the Vasudevahindi, composed around the 3rd or 4th Century AD in archaic Jain Maharashtri, which is said to be one of the lost versions of Gunadhya's Brhatkatha, written in ...
This work based on the study of vast mass of Jain canonical literature which is not yet critically edited and remains unknown, is a valuable study pertaining to social, political, economic, administrative and geographical conditions in ancient India during the period of Mahavira and the subsequent era. It covers the period of more than two thousand years based on canonical texts and commentaries. Its value is enhanced as it presents a comparative study of ...
In the world of classical literature the Mahabharata is unique in many respects. As an epic, it is the greatest-seven times as great as the Illiad and the Odyssey combined, and the grandest-animating the heart of India over two thousand years in future. It is the mightiest single endeavour of literary creation of any culture in human history. The effort is to conceive the mind that conceived it is itself a liberal education and a walk through its table of ...
History and Development of Prakrit Literature traces the important role played by Prakrit language and narrative literature in the development of Indian languages and literature. This is considered to be the first attempt ever, by any Indian or foreign scholar in this field. This publication has been painstakingly, manually prepared by Dr J C Jain after a detailed research of a wide range of Indian and foreign literary works, which has taken several years. The ...