Dhurtakhyan

SR No.: 001861
Original Sutra Author: Haribhadrasuri
Author: Jinvijay
Publisher: Saraswati Pustak Bhandar Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2002
Total Pages: 160
Language: Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujarati
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Story, Literature, P000, & P030
File Size: 14 MB

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The series was started, as mentioned above, in 1931 A. D. when I worked as a Founder Director of the Singhi Jain Chair in Visvabhārati at Shantiniketan, at Singhiji's request. It was, then, our aspiration to put the Singhi Jain Chair and the Singhi Jain Series on a permanent basis and to create a centre at Viśvabhārati for the the studies of Jain cult in deference to the wishes of the late Poet Rabindranath Tagore. But unfortunately I was forced to leave this very inspiring and holy place on account of unfavourable climatic conditions etc. which I had to face during my stay of about four years there. I shifted, therefore, from Visvabhārati to Ahmedabad where I had formerly resided and worked in those glorious days when the Gujarat Vidyāpīth and the Purātattva Mandir had been established as a part of the movement for national awakening and cultural regeneration. I went there in the hope that the reminiscences of those days and the proximity of those places would serve as sources of inspiration in my literary pursuits.
In the intervening period the activity of the Purătattva Mandir had languished and along with the arrest of its many scholar-workers the vast, precious collection of books also was confiscated and placed in custody by the British Government. After some years when it was resurnedit layunadored, like images, without its worshippers in the Mandir. My old friends and colleagues of the Purătattva Mandir and the Vidyăpith had, like myself, taken to different pursuits at different places. When some of them, namely, Prof. R. C. Parikh (who is, at present, the Director of the Postgraduate and Research Departments of the Gujarat Vernacular Society, Ahmedabad), Prof. R. V. Pathak (who is, at present, the Vice-Principal of the S. L. D. Arts College, Ahmedabad), Pandit Sukhlalji (who is the Head of the Department of Tain Studies in the Hindu University, at Benares) and myself occasionally met, we all revived our old sweet memories of the Vidyapith and the Puratattva Mandir, and of also the possibility of a regeneration of the Mandir or of the establishment of another similar institution at Ahmedabad and enjoyed in dreaming dreams of schemes of such institutions.
During this period my aim of life had centred round the Singhi Jain Series and I devoted every iota of my energy to its development and progress.
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In June, 1938, I received, to my agreeable surprise, a letter from Sri K, M. Munshi (who was, then, the Home Minister of the Congress