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some) association, particularly with the following scholars : Dr.P.L. Vaidya, Dr.A.N.Upadhye, Dr.H.L.Jain, Dr.D.S.Kothari, Pt.Bechardas Doshi, Pt.D.D. Malvania, Pt.K.C.Shastri, Dr.J.C.Jain, Dr.N.M.Tatia, Dr.Ludrvig Alsdorf, Dr.A. Mette and Miss M.Dukewitz.
At this hour, I should heartily remember with gratitude my long association with my revered teacher Dr.A.N.Upadhye, who always took considerable interest in guiding and advising me on problems of research with a stress on marshalling of evidence and due documentation, etc., in encouraging me to write papers on some desiderated topics and to present them at Conferences and Seminars and also in publishing them in standard journals. I also remember with gratitude Dr.R.C.Hiremath who encouraged me in working out some papers connected with Prakrit languages and literature in relation to Kannada language and literature - almost a virgin soil, as I happened to be rightly equipped for it. Moreover I remember, with appreciation and regard, Dr.Ludwig Alsdorf who in 1972) exclusively enlightened me on the nature and method of research work being done in German Universities and who once casually struck a critical note of caution against prototypism and overbalance of descriptive elements, recently often found in dissertations and papers of several Indian scholars in the field of Jainology anci Prakrits; and I have been always honouring that note by meticulously avoiding those features.
Then I may passingly give vent to my honest
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