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Devamurti that I may disccover whether it is really a different work from the other (atributed to Kshemamkara muni) and if so, that I might edit and perhaps translate the Vikrama Carita of Devamurti, thus completing the work which I have begun. I should gladly pay any expense which may be involved in procuring such manuscripts of Devamurti's work, and in case they cannot be sent to me on loan, I should gladly pay for copies to be made of them.
I may be addressed best at my home, which is simply Lansdowne, Pa., (U. S. A)
With assurances of profound respect and regard, and with cordial and sincere thanks for the help which you kindly offer me, I am,
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very faithfully yours, FRANKLIN EDGERTON.
June 9, 1924.
Dear Sir,
I am in receipt of your kind letter and the book "Reminiscences of Vijaya Dharma Suri," which I have perused with much interest and am very glad to have. Thank you for sending it to me. I also thank you very much for the kind promise to send me on loan the manuscripts of the Vikrama Carita to which you refer. I shall be greatly interested in them. If they prove to be essentially different from the four recensions of that work which I am now seeing 'through the press, in the Harvard Oriental Series (vol. 26 and 27) I shall probably Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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