The value of this Kosa is, indeed, incomparable. It has manifold purposes. First of all, these quotations inform us the type of non-Jain texts that were utilized by the Jains. In order to build an edifice of Jain thought and ideas, these quotations will help record the development of Jain philosophical ideas and concepts; and at the same time, the intellectual grows while meeting academic disputes. It is only from the citations of the Jain commentaries that we can write the history of their role in the development of Indian thought and ideas. It is seen from the Jaina Uddharana Kosa that in order to authenticate their arguments the Jain commentators adopted verses from the Rgveda, the Upanisads and some other philosophical texts.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kamalesh Kumar Jain
The compiler-editor, Dr. Kamalesh Kumar Jain, Associate Professor (Research) at the BLII, is a double M.A. (1. Sanskrit, 2. Linguistics) and double Acarya (1. Prakrit and Jainagama, 2. Jain Darsana). He did his Ph.D. under the title An Analytical Study of Jain Technical Terminology (in Hindi), from the BHU, Varanasi. He worked as a UGC Research Associate at the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi on the project Technical Terminology of Prakrit Agamas (in Hindi). He has been working as a Research Associate at the BLII and also worked here as Dy. Director and Asstt. Professor, for three years. The Jaina Uddharana Kosa is an enormous project of which the first volume is before you. It is creditable for him to put in long hours of work continuously for years together for completing this first volume and is more so in the light of his courage and patience to take up the completion of the work on second and third volumes. With the tenacity that he has and the amount of intellectual labour that he is capable of putting in, the rest of the volumes of the Kosa, will be completed in the coming years. He is now enjoying the status of Associate Professor (Research) at the Institute.
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