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PREFACE. The following pages speak their own intention. I may only add here that I hope this pamphlet to be an introduction to the publication of some of the original works whose shadow the following pages hope to be.
I sincerely thank Mr. Hirachand Nemch. and of Sholapur for permitting me to adapt his marathi lecture on Jainism in the first part of the pamphlet. He was good enough to look over the same and also my own article which follows.
But the credit of publishing this booklet belongs wholly to the religious zeal of Shet Natha Rangaji of Aklooja and Bombay. Had it not been for the inspiration of Mr. Ramachandrabhai of that firm, the idea of this pamphlet would not have come into my mind at this time. I am obliged to him for the inspiration.
I also thank Mr. B. C. Dhavate and Mr.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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