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Shivpuri it will be about the 8th. Kindly notify the Jain institution there my intended visit and I shall be glad if you will write me at once, care the Postmaster, Gwaliar giving any directions you may think it proper to give me about my visit to either Shivpuri or Beawar.
very sincerely yours, FRANKLIN EDGERTON.
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Bombay, February 27, 1925.
My dear and honoured sir,
I have been so busy with many ungenerative occupations that I have not managed to write to you, though I have thought of you many times and of the pleasure I had in seeing and talking with you.
I have been over nearly all India since that time. except the northwest whither I am now bound. I spent two months in Benares studying sanskrit (chiefly Vedanta ) and Hindi by which I profited greatly. Since then I have been east as far as Calcutta and south as far as Cape Comorin and Colombo, visiting practically all places of interest on the way, among the Jain places of pilgrimages I saw Sravana Belgola in Mysore with its very fine statue of Gomata Swamin.
I am presently leeving Bombay for Baroda thence to Ahmedabad, then I hope to Kathiawad where I trust I shall see Satrunjaya, Girnar among other places then to Mount Abu,
after that I shall bead for the Punjab. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
