________________ So these desis are to be preserved at any cost and would be academic crime if they are substituted with some modern cheap filmi song-lines (as is being done sometime). So the importance of these desis can hardly be over-stressed. The writer has profited from the following earlier writing in Desis : Jain Gurjara Kavio. M. D. Deshai. Revised ed. by Jayant Lothari, Vol. 8, 1997. Prachin Gujarati Chando. R. V. Pathak. 1948. Brhat Pingal. R. V. Pathak. 1955. Gujarati Sahity-no Itihas. Vol. 2. Desio-ni Saci. Niranjana Vora. (Translated from Gujarati by Dr. Vijaya Pandya) Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org
