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be able to write connectedly about them, directly from the Jaina sources : a book on that subject will interest the whole world, and will serve as a solid basis for Jaina history,
I hope that you have, ere this received my two volumes "Rig-Veda Repetitions". I shall send you shortly a few arti. cles, notably, on Salıbhadra Caritra. I am well aware that Dhanyakumara is its author; Pradyumnasuri its redactor. The Dhanyacaritra which you sent me takes up the same theme, or moves in the same sphere; needless to say it interests me greatly after my studies in the Salibhadra.
My pupil, Dr. Helen Johnson has just arrived in Baltimore, but I bave not seen her as yet. She hopes to find opportunity here to elaborate her extensive studies on the Rauhineya Caritra an uncommonly interesting sphere of Jaina Tradition, I hope that she will find it possible to devote herself perma. nently to Jaina work.
I hope sincerely that your labours as the spiritual bead of the Jaina community will be rewardful. I gather from various printed communications that the road upon which you travel is not altogether a smooth one. The spirit of Jainism is the best spirit of India, it should arouse sympathy in all Hindu circles, regardless of sectarian differences.
I shall always be glad to hear from you, and look forward to the opportunity of serving your cause and your personal endeavours.
Very faithfully yours,
MAURICE BLOOMFIELD. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
