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Shri Jain Conference Herald.
You must have, by this time received mine dated the 27th ultimo. Any information on that point I will be always ready to give.
With best regards
Yours sincerely. M. G. KĄPADIA.
Bonn. 18th July 1907.
Niebuhrstrassa 59. Dear Sir,
Many thanks for the copy of the Trisasti salaka purusa caritra 3-6 which I received by last mail. I hope soon to have leisure to peruse the work, but just now college work entirely takes up all my time.
Your letter which reached me at the same time has been of great interest to me. I. bad been corresponding with some Jains laymen and monks for these many years, and I have received many favours from them, books and loan of Mss; I therefore had a desire to know more about your community and about the leading persons in it. The 'information you give me helps me to understand matters as they are now with you. All I knew about Jainism I had derived from their books most of which depict a state of things as they were many centuries ago, and left one in the dark about the present. Allow me to put some questions to which I am led by your remarks. Speaking of the subsections of तपगच्छ you name विजय सागर and विमल साधुs. Is it a rule that by the name or part of the name of a sadhu the subsection of the gaccha to which he belongs is indicated ? Then you speak of faît Args and other yatis. Is there any difference between them as regards rank, and not only as regards their personal morals ? Are they not both alike gia's or persons who have received ear.? ( By and by at what age is a fer conferred on a novice, and how is it done? i. e. what ceremony is there on somebody's entering the order ?) What is the posis
