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Contents
Foreword Introduction
PART-I PRAKRITICA
Origin of Prakrit
Muralydhar Banerjee Periods of Prakrit
Suniti Kumar Chatterji Classification of Prakrit
Sumitra Mangesh Katre Prakrit Grammarians
Satya Ranjan Banerjee Names of the Prakrit Languages
Satya Ranjan Banerjee The Earliest Modern Scholars on Prakrit
Richard Pischel
PART-II JAINICA
A Brief History of Jain Research
Walther Schubring Understanding Jain Religion in a Historical Perspective
Satya Ranjan Banerjee Schools and Sects in Jain Literature
Amulyachandra Sen The Fourteen Gurasthānas
Helmuth von Glasenapp
