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उनके प्रमाण वगैरह का अच्छी रीति से इसमें वर्णन है। इस विषय को सूर्यप्रज्ञप्ति, चन्द्रप्रज्ञप्ति, लोकप्रकाश, क्षेत्रसमास, - त्रैलोक्यदीपिका वगैरह ग्रन्थों से जिज्ञासु पुरुष देखलेवें।
(४) धर्मकथानुयोग में भूतपूर्व महापुरुषों के चरित्र हैं। जिनके मनन करने से जीव, अत्यन्त उच्च श्रेणी पर पहुँच सकता है। वे चरित्र ज्ञाताधर्मकथा, वसुदेवहिण्डी, त्रिषष्टिशलाकापुरुषचरित्र आदि ग्रन्थों में विस्तार पूर्वक कहे हुए हैं।
जैन साहित्य के विषय में पाश्चात्य विद्वान् भी मुक्तकण्ठ
*As I was told that Jain Literature resembled very much that of the Bauddhas But I was aware very soon of the fact, that Tain Literature is by for superior to that of the Buddhists, and the more I becaine acquainted with Jain Religion and Jain Literature, the more I loved them
Some publications I had first seen had given me the wrong idea, that Jain narrators were as auckward as Buddhist ones. But I was soon auare of the fact that I was completely inistaken with this view, and that, on the contrary it is a merit merely of Jari authors to have cultivated, in Sanskrit as well, as in Prakrit, in srose and in verse an easy and natural style which inakes their tales delightful to the reader, whereas the prose of वाण, सुबन्धु and other brahmadical authors of a later time, is too artificial in the outer form to give a real satisfaction on the cin2tents of their productions
BY-DR JOHANNES HERTEL
DOEBELN, GERMAN EMPIRE
