Speaking of Monks MLBD Publishing House The life he adopted was

The life he adopted was neither the stuff of distant legends nor a tale of inaccessible Himalayan heights

At the hands of Sage Vaalmeeki

Recently he has been honored by the President of India with an award for his scholarship in Sanskrit language and literature

and without abating one iota of justifiable confidence in the general trustworthiness of the present Dictionary

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Speaking of Monks MLBD Publishing House The life he adopted wasThis book contains one long, very interesting and informative essay on biographical writings in the Jain tradition. The author translates and discusses the biographies and autographs of two Jain monks who lived in the 11th and 14th centuries respectively. About the Author(s) Koichi Shinohara is a member of the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Phyllis Granoff teaches Indian religion and Sanskrit at