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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. 315. Books of the Jains contain not only specimens of Prākrit, but are wholly written in that language.
COLEBROOKE speaks of the Präkrit and Pali, the languages of the Jains and the Buddhas,
In 1847 was published the first Jain work, Kalpa Sūtra, by Dr, J. STEVENSON of Bombay.
P. 317. Hemacandra wrote his grammar about the middle of the 12th century A.D,
Grammar of the Jain Prākrit by E. MULLER came out in 1876.
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H. JACOBI-Ueber den Cloka im Pāli und Prākrit. (Kuhn's Zeitschrift fur vergleichende Sprachforschung, vol. XXIV, Pp. 610-614). Berlin, 1879.
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On the technics of the śloka, principally Ullarādhyana,
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S. GOLDSCHMIDT-Prakrtica. Strassburg, 1879.
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Th. ZACHARIAE--Das Jainendravyākaranam, (Bezzenberger's Beitrage zur Kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen, vol. V. P. 296-311)-Gottingen, 1880.
Description of a manuscript of the Fainendravyakarana preserved in the royal liberary of Berlin.
The author of this grammatical treatise is unknown. But he was surely a Jain, and perhaps he was called Jinendra sūri.
The date of the Jainen dravyākarana is difficult to determine. It must be admitted however that this work belongs to the series of the most ancient works which have given place to Pāṇini.
Proofs in favour of this opinion :
1. The fainendravyakarana is with Pāṇini in a closer resemblance than any other grammatical work.
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