Outlines of Jainism c3.2

c3.2

The present volume of *Outlines* is issued by the Jain Literature Society in advance of a series designed to consist principally, but not exclusively, of translations from authoritative texts. We are not, indeed, without convenient manuals in English treating of the subject, such as Dr. J. Burgess' edition of Bühler's *On the Indian Sect of the Jainas* (London, 1903), Mr. A. B. Latthe's *An Introduction to Jainism* (Bombay, 1905), Mr. U. D. Barodia's *History and Literature of Jainism* (Bombay, 1909), Mr. Hirachand Liladhar Jhaveri's *First Principles of Jaina Philosophy* (London, 1910), and Mr. H. Warren's *Jainism* (Madras, 1912); to which there has recently been added the substantial treatise of Mrs. Sinclair Stevenson (*The Heart of Jainism*, Oxford and London, 1915, following upon the same author's *Notes on Modern Jainism*, Oxford and Surat, 1910): but there is still, we think, room for a work like the present, furnishing in a moderate compass a thorough exposition of the system and its terminology; while the *Texts* (in several cases Digambara) which follow the *Outlines* will be found, if we are not mistaken, an interesting and valuable feature.