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pass my mind. The co-operators of this Series have, one after another, left this world and no words can describe the void which they have created. Prof. Hermann Jacobi, Kumar Devendra Prasad, J.L. Jaini, C.R. Jain, Mahāmahopādhyāya S.C. Vidyābhūşaņa, Puranchand Nahar, Pannalal Paliwal—to speak about a few of the leading helpers--have all gone away. Only Pandit Ajit Prasad remains and may he live long to bear the torch illuminating Jainism. In the twilight of my own life, in which ill-health and bereavements are casting their shadows, I am not sure whether I shall appear any more before the readers, bringing out any subsequent volume. But I sincerely believe that more capable hands of an ever-increasing band of competent scholars would take up the standard and bring out to the world the unique doctrines of Syādvāda, the most wonderful tenet of Jainism, which is sure to find out its proper place amongst the philosophical doctrines of the world.
-S. C. Ghoshal
June, 1944 Cooch Behar
1. Pandit Ajit Prasad died on September 17, 1951
