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world. I shall be together with him in Hamburg in September, and shall then discuss with him literary plans concerning Jainism.
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I am now transcribing a part of a palm leaf manuscript of Bhadreswara's Kathavali of which Mr. K. P. Mody sent me a photograph. The work is much older than Hemacandra, and the part in my hands corresponds to the Parisista Parvan, but goes further down than that work. The Mss. is beautifully written but by an ignorant scribe, and therefore full of mistakes and omissions. Unless another Mss. of this interesting text should be available, it cannot be edited. But what new information I can gather from it. I shall publish if an opportunity offers after I have done with this work. I shall return to my studies in Indian metrics for which I have been collecting materials since a long time.
Hoping you will I remain, yours very sincerely.
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HERMANN JACOBI.
Bonn, 20th July 1926. 59, Niebuhrstrasse.
Dear Sir,
I have proposed to the Bibliotheca Indica to issue a sccond revised edition of Hemachandra's Parisista Parvan. edited by me in 1891, and the General Secretary, Asiatic Society of Bengal, suggests that I should make my preparation in anticipation of the decision of the Committee. I therefore implore your assistance in this task by procuring me the loan of Manuscripts of the Parisista Parvan (factafa) in order to make the edition of text as correct as possible. I may state Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
