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of Mysore under the auspices of the Sanmati Granthamālā and by Pt. Bhujabali Shastri of Moodbidre.
After this survey of literature in different languages I may be permitted to notice bricfly a few books and papers discussing and interprcting Jaina art. Dr. U. P. Shali, a reputed scholar and rescarcher in this subjcct, has written a monograph on the Akoțā bronzes, discovered a few years back at the village Akoţā, near Baroda (State Board of Historical Records and Ancient Monuments, Bombay, 1959). Dr. Shah has described all the Jaina bronzes in the Akoțā hoard, and has thrown light on important problems, such as the form of Jivantasvāmi images, age of differentiation between Svetāmbara and Digambara idols, etc. with the help of these new finds. Here we find for the first time the earliest known images of the Svetāmbara type, the carliest known images of the Sāsanadevatās in Jaina worship as well as a reference in an inscription to Rathavasatikā which Dr. Shah thinks to be a Vasatikā named after Arya Ratha. In this monograph Dr. Shah has also discussed the Jaina bronzes of the Chausā hoard now in Patna Muscum, and he thinks that thcy date from c. Ist to 3rd-4th centurics. This monograph should be of special interest to thic students of tlic history of Indian art, since Dr. Shah lias been able to prove the existence of a School of Ancient West (i.c. Western India) referred to by the Tibetan Lämā Tärinātha. The book is nicely illustrated and printed.
Dr. Klaus Fischer has written another monograph on Caves and Temples of the Jainas (World Jaina Mission, Aliganj, 1956). Caves and temples of the Jainas arc distributed all over India, and werc constructed since the dawn of Eastern art upto the present day. In a way, the continuance of the traditional architecture in modern India is mainly duc lo tlc munilicence of the Jainas. The present book gives a survey of somc outstanding monuments of Jainism in all parts of India, and has followed a chronological order with a gcographic subdivision. It is as it should be in this type of publication that the
