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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the foreign agents of my 'Panchatantra Reconstructed,' the Oxford University Press, who have been asked to send you a copy of the work.
I am happy to say that I expect to come to India myself next year, and hope to visit you and make your personal acquantance. I shall sail in June and expect to arrive in Bombay before the end of July. I shall communicate with you after my arrival. You may address me there in care of my friend Dr. V. S. Sukthankar, at the Bhandarkar Research Institute, P. O. Deccan Gymkhana, Poona City. I expect to go first to Poona and shall probably stay there a considerable time. I have one year to spend in India, and hope to occupy it largely in study of sanskrit with Hindu pandits, but also partly in travel, so as to become acquainted with as much of the country and as many of its leading personalities as possible. Among the persons whom I hope to visit I count yourself one of the first.
I have heard from my pupil Mr. James R. Ware, now In Paris, of his correspondence with you and of your kind willingness to help him in his edition of the "Vikrama-Carita" I entrusted to him both the manuscripts which you were so kind as to send me.
With cordial greetings and looking forward to the pleasure of meeting you in the near future, I am,
very respectfully yours, FRANKLIN EDGERTON.
· P. S. I should add that after this year I shall no longer be connected with the University of Pennsylvania, but with