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P. S. You have perhaps heard that I visited the Samadhi Mandir at Shivpuri while I was in Gwaliar. I also visited the Jain Library at Agra, and was very kindly received in both places.
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Lansdowne, Pa.,. January 11 1925.
Honoured and dear Sir,
I am happy to acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter of December 2, and later of the two manuscripts from the Shree Vijaya Dharma Laxmi Gyana Mandir, which you kindly
sent to me on loan, and which I shall try to treat with the greatest care and to return in the same conditiion in which they were lent.
I find that the manuscripts do not contain the work ordinarily known as "Vikrama-Carita" namely the Sinhāsanad. vātrinsikā, but another work dealing with King Vikramaditya namely, the Pancadandatapatrachattraprabandha which bas been known to European scholars herefore only from a version published by Professor Weber of Berlin in 1877. Weber's version was short one, in prose. The two versions contained in your mss. (for the texts are not the same at all, the both are versions of the same work) are in verse. It appears to me, from a casual examination, that they are older and better than Weber's prose version. I shall probably publish some account of them, or have one of my students do so. In that case I
shall, of course, send you a copy of the publication. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
