Letters to Vijayendrasuri

SR No.: 034934
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kashinath Sarak
Publisher: Yashodharma Mandir
Publication Year: 1960
Total Pages: 326
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 37 MB

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Baltimore, December 21, 1925.
My dear and esteemed Vijayendra Suri,
I have by this time received the Dharmadipika which join hands with the previously acknowledged Hemachandra's Abhidhanacintamani. I need hardly say how grateful I am for these beautiful works which are such palpable evidence that the Jainas have not abandoned their time-honoured love for Vyakarna and Koca. I am just now speaking in print of these works in an article “On the use of deminutive pronouns in Jaina Sanskrit" which is to appear before long.
My large work on the "Lives of the Arhats or Tirthan. karas” is handicapped by the fact that I have not been able to get hold a complete copy of Hemachandra's Trisastisalakapu. rusa Caritra. As this work seems to be at the bottom of most of the later Caritras, Mahakavyas, Kathanakas, and Purans about the saviors, I feel that my work is more or less fragmentary. I have tried hard to obtain the work through the book trade but not succeeded. I should be very happy to pay its price, but if it cannot be had in that way, could you not lend me the copy of your library. That is all but Parwan X, the Mahavira caritra, which is in my possession.
I am asking this great favour wtth the sense that I can by its means do a real service in America in cause of Jainism. Until the day when I began to publish (very little, to be sure ) on Jainism there bad, as far as I know, been utter darkness on this
subject in the minds of American Orientalists and the American