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Pustakoddhar Fund, Printed at the Surat Jain Printing Press. Cloth bound, P. P. 462. Price Rs. 0-10-0 (1913).
The opulent Jain community of Surat, which till lately was spending its money on either luxury, or building of temples, has turned its attention, as is shown by the objects of this fund-nearly one lac of Rupeesall contributed by the members of one familyto far better things, and we sincerely congratulate them on this new departure. Till now the Fund has published about fourteen useful books and the one under review is the *fifteenth. The collection of Râsâs (stories) contained in this volume is written in the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries of the Vikram era, and furnishes very useful reading. The trustees lay before the Gujarati Public, works which till now were lying idle in manuscript form in the Jain Bhandârs. Their publication is sure to help the Philologist and the litterateur. Contemporary poems written by non-Jains were available in large numbers, but in absence of such works as the above there was no basis on which the merits of these respective classes
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