The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c5.56

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almost inexhaustible stock of literature, an activity radiating as far as to the field of Western research. This state of affairs can be dated from the first two decades of this century. It is true that it was HOERNLE who, as early as in 1890, could dedicate the first volume of his Uvāsagadasāo to VIJAYĀNANDA Sūri (Ānandavijaya=Ātmārāma, 1837-97) in grateful acknowledgment of various suggestions and corrections, though it is equally true that it was VIJAYADHARMA Sūri (1868-1922), never failing to help when being consulted by European scholars¹, who proved by far more effective. The renaissance just mentioned with the Śvetāmbaras at least is due to his lasting impulse.