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2.7 Acknowledgements
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Findeis, Prof. Dr. Hans Findeis, Dr. Nisha Jain, Dr. Jitendra Jain, Mr. Manish Modi, Mr. Nikunj Jain, and Mr. Subodha Kumara Jain. Others from which I took a profit remain unnamed. I would like to thank especially Nisha, Manish and Nikunj. They organised my trip to Madhya Pradesh in March 2006, where I had the only chance to consult Muni Mahārāja Kşamasāgaraji and Muni Mahārāja Abhayasāgaraji.
I am further indebted to the staff of the Bibliothèque Nationale in France, the staff of the University Library in Tübingen, and the staff of the Regional Library of Rheinland-Pfalz in Koblenz.37 I am especially obliged to Mr. Peter Wyzlic for introducing me to the electronic data processing. However, the present work would not have come about without the encouragement of my family and friends. Finally, I am grateful to Prof. Dr. Irmgard MännleinRobert, Prof. Dr. Achim Mittag, Prof. Dr. Konrad Volk, and Prof. Dr. Günter Kehrer who participated as members of the board of oral examiners at the Department of Indology and Religious Studies in Tübingen. I would like to thank also Dr. Heike Moser and Prof. Dr. Klaus Butzenberger who kindly arranged the oral examination.
37 Moreover, Dr. Anja Mohrdiek, Dr. Dagmar Wujastyk, Dr. Vrushali Deshpande, Dr. Monika Zin, Dr. Rajendra Sethia, Dr. Jayandra Soni, Dr. Felix Erb, Dr. Peter Flügel, Dr. Jitendra Jain, Dr. Karl-Heinz Golzio, Mr. Manish Modi, Mr. Nikunj Jain, and Mr. Peter Wyzlic, supported my research during different stages of my work. I would like to thank all of them.
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