Unknown Pilgrims

SR No.: 007014
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N Shanta
Publisher: Sri Satguru Publications Delhi
Publication Year: 1997
Total Pages: 820
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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Bonds of Friendship. Thanks to Mary and John.
For nearly twenty years a close collaboration has existed between myself and Mary and her ecumenical group. We worked together in their Ashram (Jyotiniketan, near Bareilly), at Varanasi, then by post, while they were living in Jerusalem. In the autumn of 1983, when the original manuscript of the present study had just been accepted by the publisher 0. E. I. L. of Paris, Mary, then living in Hong Kong, consented, to my great joy, to undertake a translation into English. In June 1984, during a brief stay that I was able to in Hong Kong, we organised a plan of work. Thereafter, the pages of the translation arrived regularly in Kodaikkanal for me to forward, after I had gone through her lists of notes, to John Grimes, a friend and researchscholar in Indian Philosophy in Madras. John, out of extreme kindness, typed the whole manuscript of the translation. He even continued the task after his return in California, where I met him once again before returning in June of this year to Hong Kong, where together Mary and I have gone through the whole translation, done with such great care and love. I would like, on this very first page, to express my deep gratitude to Mary and to John.
The translation is unabridged. We have added merely a few bibliographical notes.
N. Shăntă Kodaikkanal, Samvatsari, the beginning of the Jaina year. 31st August 1986.
During these ten years this English version went through several ordeals. It is due to the keen interest and utter dedication to works of research in the field of Religion of Dr. Anand Amaladass SJ, Director of Satya Nilayam Research Institute, Madras, that finally the present version is going to be published. To him and to his team I express my profound gratitude.
N. Shāntā Kodaikkanal, Dipāvali, 10 November 1996.