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17, Bendler Strasse,
Berlin W. 10, December 4th, 1922.
Dear Upadhyayaji,
Many thanks for your kind letter. According to your wish I send you a few lines on our great Master. They may be published if you think that they are good. In compliance to your wish I subscribe 5 Sh. ( today about 10.000 Marks ) to the Vijayadharmasuri Fund and ask you to pay this sum for me through one of your friends; when I shall write later on an article for a Jaina Magazine or paper and get something for it. You may take it from it, so that I may repay my debt to you; for at present I have not the possibility to send you this sum, which is very small for an indian, but very big for a German.
Concerning the intended book I shall write more when I have made out the price of printing, which becomes more expensive every day. You will have seen that the reproduction of the two miniatures are excellent; if you could tell me that so and so many money could be spent by Jain gentlemen for the printing of the book, I could know if the great work can be undertaken or if it is not possible.
A friend of mine, an admirer of Jainism who knows no Indian languages has asked me if there is an English book giving details on the lives of the Tirthankaras, Cakravartis, Vasudevas, Baladwas etc. as Hemcandra and others have told them. If Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
