Review: JAINISM AND PRAKRIT IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL INDIA (Essays for Prof. Jagdish Chandra Jain : Felicitation Volume)

The volume consists of two sections/parts, the first one being devoted to nine articles, viz., a biographical sketch of Prof. J.C. Jain, list of books and articles by Prof. J.C. Jain, a profile of Prof. Jain by Vilas Sangave, reminiscences of Prof. Jain's time as a research scholar in Germany by Werner F. Menski.

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कंसारा एन. एन. भट्टाचार्य सम्पादित जगदीशचन्द्र जैन अभिनन्दन ग्रन्थ का परिचय देते हैं — पहले खण्ड में नौ श्रद्धालेख तथा ग्रन्थसूची, दूसरे में नॉर्मन, बोले, श्लिंगलोफ, ग्रैनॉफ और ढाकी आदि के चौंतीस निबन्ध, जिनमें अशोक के अभिलेख, प्राकृत बोलियाँ, बौद्ध कला में जैन, तथा अकबर की जैन-नीति पर विचार है। Kansara describes N. N. Bhattacharyya's felicitation volume for Jagdish Chandra Jain: nine tributes and a bibliography, then thirty-four studies by Norman, Bollee, Schlingloff, Granoff, Dhaky and others on Asokan inscriptions, Prakrit dialect geography, Jains in Buddhist art, Jinasena's Purva-Purana and Akbar's policy toward Jains.

Written by the archive’s cataloguers, not by the author.