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Foreword,
I have to confess to a feeling of presumption on my part to have undertaken to add a foreword to the present treatise "Diksānu Sunder Svarupa" (दीक्षानुं सुंदर स्वरुप) written by Acharya Shree. Sagaranandsūri, whose valuable services to the cause of Jaina Literature are so well known and who is aptly deemed at present as an authority on the explanation and interpretation of the Jaina Siddhānta. The present volume has treated the subject of the initiation into monkhood exhaustively in all its aspects. The subject is one of paramount importance to the Jainas and although in the present treatise it is principally treated
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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