Articles on Canonical Text Analysis
A Review of Pindesani
By J. C. Sikdar · Sambodhi, 1976
This brief review by J. C. Sikdar discusses a scholarly publication entitled ‘Pindesani’, presumably an edition or study of a little‑known Jaina text. The review begins with a summary of the work’s contents: it includes a critical edition of the original…
Jaina Studies: Japan, Europe, India
By Kendall W. Folkert · Sambodhi, 1976
Kendall W. Folkert provides a survey of the state of Jaina studies across three geographic regions – Japan, Europe and India – at the time of writing. The author begins with Japan, where Indology programmes had been established only in the mid‑twentieth…
Studies in Early Buddhist Historiography
By U. N. Ghoshal · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1941
This article traces how early Buddhist communities developed a sense of history and biography. Instead of a continuous life story of the Buddha, the author explains that the Pāli Canon preserves scattered episodes about his ancestry, birth, renunciation,…