Jaina studies in Europe

At the beginning of his paper on "Buhler as a collector of mss", Ernst Leumann who, since 1884, was professor at the University of Strassburg¹, wrote "It is generally not known or scarcely noticed to what an extent the history of any science is dependent on the local distribution of its material" (Indian Antiquary 27,

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कॉलेट कैयाँ यूरोप में जैन अध्ययन की एक शताब्दी का सर्वेक्षण करती हैं — बर्लिन और स्ट्रासबुर्ग के हस्तप्रत-संग्रह (ब्यूलर, वेबर, लॉयमान), जिनके कारण यह क्षेत्र भाषाशास्त्रीय बना; श्वेताम्बर आगम और नियुक्तियों पर जर्मन शोध (आल्सडोर्फ, ब्रून, मेटे, बोले, बाल्बीर); तथा 1970 के बाद ब्रिटेन में बढ़े सामाजिक-मानवशास्त्रीय अध्ययन। Caillat surveys a century of European Jainology: the Berlin and Strassburg manuscript collections built by Bühler, Weber and Leumann, which made the field philological; German work on the Śvetāmbara canon and its niryuktis (Alsdorf, Bruhn, Mette, Bollée, Balbir); and the newer British social-anthropological studies since 1970.

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