Prolegomena to Prakritica et Jainica

Contents: Foreword. Introduction. I. Prakritica: 1. Origin of Prakrit/Muralydhar Banerjee. 2. Periods of Prakrit/Suniti Kumar Chatterji. 3. Classification of Prakrit/Sumitra Mangesh Katre. 4. Prakrit grammarians/Satya Ranjan Banerjee. 5. Names of the Prakrit languages/Satya Ranjan Banerjee. 6. The earliest modern scholars on Prakrit/Richard Pischel. II. Jainica: 1. A brief history of Jain research/Walther Schubring. 2. Understanding Jain religion in a historical perspective/Satya Ranjan Banerjee. 3. Schools and sects in Jain literature/Amulyachandra Sen. 4. The fourteen Gunasthanas/Helmuth von Glasenapp. 5. Rsabhadeva/Satya Ranjan Banerjee. 6. Anekantavada and language/Satya Ranjan Banerjee. 7. Jainism and non-violence/Satya Ranjan Banerjee. 8. Political and social thoughts in Hemacandra (1088-1172 A.D.)/Satya Ranjan Banerjee. III. Jain Literature: 1. Chronological development of Jain literature/Satya Ranjan Banerjee.