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Foremost among these are the disciples of the late Vijaya Dharma Suri, known to all students of Jainism for his 'learning and sympathetic interest. I am greatly indebted to two of his disciples, Muni Jayanta Vijaya Maharaj and Nyayatirtha Nyayavijaya Maharaj for liberal assistance extending over long periods of time, and to his successor, Jainacarya Vijaya Indra Suri; and also to Jainacarya Jaya Suri.
I wish to express my warmest thanks to Prof. N. G. Suru, Fergusson College, for his disinterested help and willing sacrifice of time; to Mr. N. M. Dutt, Curator of State Libraries, Baroda, for his cordial interest and valuable suggestions; and to Prof. S. V. Shevade, Baroda College, for information on botanical points.
My most grateful appreciation of his unfailing courtesy in granting every facility and rendering every assistance is due Dr. B. Bhattacharyya, both as Director of the Oriental Institute and publisher of the Gaekwad's Oriental Series. I am, indeed, under obligation to the entire staff of the Oriental Institute for their sympathetic cooperationespecially Pandit L. B. Gandhi..whose...wide knowledge of the āgamas and ability to locate obscure references were invaluable to me, to Pandit K. S. Ramasvami Shastri Siromani for much useful information, and to Mr. K. Rangasvami and Mr. M. A. Joshi for making the Sanskrit Index.
Copies of many Jain texts are very difficult to obtain, and for help in that respect my thanks are due Mr. A. J. Sunavala of Bhavnagar, Mr. P. K. Mody of Ahmedabad, Mr. Motilal Ladhaji of Poona, the Jñāna Mandir of Baroda, and Ātmānanda Sabhä of Bhavnagar.
A new biography of Hemacandra is needed badly, but as I have heard of two under composition, I have deferred the subject. BARODA:
HELEN M. JOHNSON. January 10, 1931.
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