A Recent Study of Bhagavatisutra Reviewed

Prof Jozef Deleu, the Belgian scholar specialising in Jaina studies, has recently brought out a full-fledged study of the Jaina canonical text 1 iyaka- pannatt (better known as Bhagavatisūtra or simply Bhagavars) 1 The status and character of Bhagavati being what they are the students of Jainism cannot thank the author enough for his painstaking

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दीक्षित योज़ेफ़ देलू के वियाहपण्णत्ति-विषयक अध्ययन की समीक्षा करते हैं। वे देलू के तीन प्रश्नों— क्या शतक २१ से ४१ और शतक २५ परवर्ती परिवर्धन हैं, तथा शतक १ से २० की विशेषता क्या है— को शुब्रिंग द्वारा प्रस्तावित मूल कलेवर की कल्पना के सामने तौलते हैं। Dixit reviews Jozef Deleu's study of the Viyahapannatti. He weighs Deleu's three questions, whether satakas 21 to 41 and sataka 25 are later accretions and what marks satakas 1 to 20, against Schubring's account of the kernel of the text, and appraises the summaries.

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