Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I) v1.c2.1

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We have *Vedic Index* and *Dictionary of Pali Proper Names* prepared by eminent scholars. But such an index or a dictionary of Prakrit names was a desideratum¹. The task of preparing *Vedic Index* or *Pali* dictionary was somewhat easy. It was so because most of the concerned *Vedic* and *Pali* works were published with indices. But different is the case with the Prakrit canonical works of the Jainas. All the published works (barring some few exceptions like the four works published in the West and *Bhratkalpabhasya* edited in five volumes by Rev. Muni Shri Punyavijayaji) contain no index whatsoever.