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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
It is my pleasant duty to express my gratitude to several gentlemen without whose encouragement and assistance the present volume could not have been offer what it has come to be. First of all, let me my sincere thanks to Mrs. Lilavati Devidas Kanji for her generous gift of about eleven hundred rupees for the publication of this book. According to the will of her deceased husband, Seth Devidas Kanji, who was a famous tradesman of Bombay, and who was keenly interested in literary publications and in activities of social reform, Mrs. Lilavati has donated large sums of money in the cause of social uplift and literary advancement-a fraction whereof, which we have received, being directed towards the preparation of this book.
I am really indebted to Mr. Rasiklal Parikh, B.A., Secretary, Gujarat Vernacular Society Ahmedabad, for so very kindly going through the Introduction and for his valuable suggestions regarding the English rendering of the text. And I must thank both the translators also, Professor Ramchandra B. Athavale M.A., Professor of Sanskrit S. L. D. Arts College, Ahmedabad and Prof. A. S. Gopani M. A., Professor of Jaina Studies, Bharatiya Vidyabhavana Bombay, who have done their utmost to make the translation as accurate as possible.
I am also much obliged to Syt. Dalsukhbhai Malvania, without whose help this book could not have seen the
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