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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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OUR OBLIGATIONS. When we started our work in January 1927, we little ex: pected that the work of editing the Descriptive Catalogue will involve so much time or so much worry on our part. Thanks to the enthusiastic co-operation which we uniformely received from the members of the special staff and those belonging to the pormanent staff of the library, the academic side of the work bas indeed been a pleasure. On the other hand, the work of finding the necessary fands for the fiuancing of the publication of the catalogno in a suitable and adequate manner, satisfying the needs of the scholar.world, did involve a little too much of worry, certainly incommensurate with the greatness of the task involved and the
baracter of the work undertaken, as the editing was purely a labour of love undertaken for the spreading of knowledge. Howe ever, whatever might have been the difficulties encountered with due to official exigencies etc., we are glad to lay down the task with satisfaction of having done our Daty.
In accomplisbing our task, we desire to record with fool. ings of real gratitude the laborious and ungrudging assistance rendered to us by Pandit N. Vaidyapitha Bāstri, not only during the period of his membership of the special staff bat also for long period since then, till the very day of our laying down the task. To Rao Saheb T. Såmbæinūrthi Rao, the old but enthu. Big&stic Honorary Secretary of the Library, words cannot ade: quately convey the gratitudo the world of scholars owe. His ono and only aim in Life bas been the preservation of the treasures of the Library. We shall indeed be highly obliged if he feels that we too have co-operated with him, in however humble a manner, in his noble task.
Gurubhaktasikbåmapi, Sastraprasärabbūpaņa T. K. Bala. subrahmanya Iyer, the Managing Director of the 8.1 Vans Vilas Press Srirangam (already famous for its valuable publications in the cause of Sansksit Literature) deserves special thanks not only for the attractive manner in wbich he has brought out all the Nineteen Volumes but also for the great financial Assis: tmco be has rendered the Government and the public, by
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