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Preface
In the end it remains for me to record gladly and respectfully, my indebtedness to Vidvadvallabha Muni Punyavijayaji, a disciple of the late Munirāja Sri Caturavijaya and a grand-disciple of Pravartaka Śrimat Kāntivijaya, who has for the third time quite willingly rendered to me valuable assistance by going through a duplicate copy of the page-proofs of the non-English portions up to 56 pages. I have also to thank Dr. V. S. Sukthankar, for having agreed to insert in this part, a photograph of a fol. of Ms. No. 7123 of 1892-95 (Serial No. 720 ), on my drawing his kind attention to the fact that this Ms. has been written in very small hand-writing, perhaps the smallest I remember to have seen at the Institute, and that this Ms. was selected for exhibit for that very reason and was very highly appreciated by the late His Excellency the Right Hon'ble Lord Brabourne, G.C.I.E. MC., the former Governor of Bengal when His Excellency paid a visit to the Institute as the Governor of Bombay on 22nd June 1935. Equally indebted I am to Dr. R. N. Dandekar, M.A., Ph.D., the Hon. Secretary for his having complied with my request of inserting in this Part III a photograph of the last fol. of the Ms. No. 286 of A. 1883-84 (Serial No. 1139 ) on my drawing his kind attention that this is the oldest dated ( Samvat 1333) paper Ms. in the Institute and perhaps elsewhere, too. 3
Dr. Sukthankar deserves to be once more thanked for having agreed to publish this part and thus given an early opportunity to the public in general and the Jaing community in particular, to know more about the Jaina Mss. dealt with in this part.
Sankdi Sheri, Gopipura,
SURAT. 30th May, 1940
Hiralal R. Kapadia
1-2 These face pp. 120 and sio respectively.
3 The Ms, No. 57 of 1880-81 (Serial No. 1106) is the oldest dated palm-leaf Ms. I know of. Its date is Sathyat 1138.
