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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
127 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Primarily we are very much thankful to the members of the managing boards of the Jñānabhandāras from which we obtained the valuable mss. already described, for, they were liberal enough and quite patient to allow to keep the mss. with us for a long time till the publication of these two Agamas.
We are grateful to Munirāja Shri Jambuvijayaji, a great scholar of Indian Philosophy, Jināgamavācanapraviņa Munivarya Shri Jayaghoshavijayji, Pt. Shri Bechardasaji, Dr. Krishna Kumar Dixit and others for their valuable suggestions at various places.
Our sincere thanks are due to Shri Chandulal Vardhaman Shah, Shri Jayantilal Ratanchand Shah, etc. who are the secretaries of Shri Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya and the members of the Agama Publication Committee, for extending their co-operation for such a long period of time.
Shri Ratilal Dipchand Desai (joint-secretary, Āgama Publication Dept., Shri Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya) is always anxious as well as worried about the successful completion of this scheme. He is always with us in person and greatly helps in accelerating the publication work. He has an eye for fine and neat printing. He deserves thanks and praise not only from us but from all those who have interest in the publication of the Agamas.
Shri Kantilal Dahyabhai Kora (Registrar, Shri Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya) has taken keen personal interest in the publication work. He has been very careful to see that all the work regarding the Press goes on smoothly and uninterrupted, e. g. to despatch the matter to the Press, to bring the proofs from the press and to send them to us at Ahmedabad etc. His hard labour deserves appreciation.
We are grateful to Dr. Nagin J. Shah, Dy. Director of L. D. Institute of Indology, who has been kind enough to prepare
Introduction' and 'Editor's Note'-English translation of Prastavanā' and 'Sampādakiya' written in Gujarati.
We cannot forget Shastri Shri Harishankar Ambaram Pandya and Pt. Shri Nagindas Kevalshi Shah who have helped us by way of copying variants and reading proofs.
In the last, Shri V. P. Bhagavat, the manager of the famous Mouj Printing Bureau, deserves our heart-felt thanks for providing us with the various facilities regarding the printing of this volume. We hope that he will be similarly helpful to us in future too.
Muni Punya vijay Dalsukh Malvania Amratlal M. Bhojak
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