Jaina Bibliography Part 2

SR No.: 016036
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Veer Seva Mandir Trust
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 900
Language: English
Classification: Dictionary & Dictionary
File Size: 15 MB

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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Präkrit literature is more popular than Sanskrit and helps us to get a better picture of the Indian masses than is otherwise possible. Dr. MEHENDALE has attempted a valuable analysis of important Prākrit Inscriptions (Historical Grammar of Inscriptional Prakrits, Poona, 1948).
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A. M. GHATGE-Jacobi's Introduction to Ansgewahlte Erzalungen in Maharashtri - translated into English, (Jain Ant., vol. XVIII, No. II), Arrah, 1952.
Pp. 16' to 26. The evieence of the canonical books and a persistent Jaina tradition lead scholars to give the name Ardha-Māgadhi to the language of the Jain canon to which JACOBI had given the name Jain Prākrit which is now-a-days generally taken to mean Ardha-Māgadhi, Jaina Mähārāştri of the post-canonical works and Jaina Sauraseni of the Prākrit works of the Digambaras. The home of Māhārāstrī being Maharashtra situated along the upper course of the Godavri with Prathisthana as its capital. Beginning of its literary cultivation in the 4th century A.D. The Jain canons were written in western Indio (Valabhi) in the year 454 A.D.
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Louis Renou-Histoire De La Langue Sanskrite Par. Paris, 1956.
Pp. 222-229. Sanskrit Jaina : Generalites.
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E. D. KULKARNI- The language of Pandavacarita of Devaparbhasūri. (Summaries of Papers, A.I.O.C. XIXth Session, Delhi, 1957).
P. 86. Maladhārin Devaprabhasūri wrote Pāndavacarita in about 1200 A.D. The language of the work shares all the characteristics of Jaina Sanskrit.
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Satya Ranjan BANERJEE-An apparent anomaly in Hemacandra's Prakrit Grammar. (Summaries of Papers, A.I.O.C., XIXth Session, Delhi, 1957). P. 86.
The Sütra U dodvārde (1/82) in Hemacandra's Prākrit Grammar is defective from the grammatical point of view.
2120 (ii) Satya Ranjan BANERJEE-A note on the remarks of Paisachei on the illustrative Gathas of Hemachandra's Dešinamamala. (Proc. and Trans. A.I.O.C., XVIIIth Session, 1955), Annamalainagar, 1958. Pp. 274-279,