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research on the Old Gujarāti language from the Committee on the Advancement of Research of the University of Pennsylvania. I am especially grateful to these institutions for their generosity.
I am appreciative of the courteous assistance afforded me in my search for manuscripts by the directors and staffs of the institutions listed alphabetically, as follows: the Seth Dosābhāi Abhecand Jain Sangh Collection of Bhāvnagar, the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, the Sri Ātmarāma Jainajñāna Mandir of Baroda, the Baroda Museum and Picture Gallery, the Bombay Branch of the Asiatic Society, the Boston Museum, the Sri Hamsavijayaji Collection of Baroda, the Hemacandrācārya Jainajñāna Mandir of Pāțan, the Heeramaneck Galleries of New York, the India Office Library in London, the Hukum Muni Bhandār of Surat, the 'L. D. Institute of Indology of Ahmedabad, the Srī Mahāvīra Jaina Vidyālaya of Bombay, the B. S. Nahar Collection of Calcutta, the National Museum of New Delhi, the Oriental Institute of Baroda, the Prince of Wales Museum of Bombay, the Rājasthān Paratattva Mandir of Jaipur, the Narendrasingh Singhi Collection of Calcutta and the Rajendrasingh Singhi Collection of Calcutta.
I am grateful to Miss Kanta Bhatia, the Bibliographer for South Asian Studies of the Library of the University of Pennsylvania, for her many kindnesses and valuable assistance over the years, and to Dr. Richard J. Cohen, the Assistant to the Chairman of the South Asia Regional Studies Department of the University of Pennsylvania. My former student and a dedicated scholar to Jain researches, his expertize made possible the transfer of my materials to my computer and the expedition of this work to a fruitful conclusion. His preparation of the camera-ready copy of this book has facilitated its publication.
My thanks, too, to the South Asia Regional Studies Department of the