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Shri Jaina Confertnce Herald.
Hoping to hear soon from you and wishing you good health and long life.
Yours faithfully. M. G. KAPADIA.
2nd May 1905.
Niebuhrstrasse 59. DEAR SIR,
Many thanks for your kind letter and the copy of the persat alta. The latter I get first, and I expressed my thanks for, in a billet to the Jain Dharma Prasaraka Sabha of Bhownagar by return of post. I now repeat my thanks to you through whom I got the book. I had already seen the first edition of it, and I have induced a pupil of mine, Dr. Luigi Suali, a talented Italian Sanscritist, to make an abstract of it in Italian. This paper will appear in the next number of the Studi Italiani di Flologias Indo-iranica. As I have, long ago, edited the Parishistha parva of the Tris'asti Salaka purusa charitra in the Bibliotheca Indica, I need not say that I welcome the publication of the whole work with great satisfaction.
With regard to the date of Siddharsi the late Professor Peterson has curiously blundered. If Siddharsi's date 962 is to be interpreted as a Vira date, it is equal to . ( 492 and not 592) Now in order to decide whether it is to be taken as a Vira or Samvat year, I have calculated the date on either supposition with the help of my tables ( Computation of Hindu dates in Inscriptions etc., Epigraphia Indica I ). The date 96.2 Jyestha sudi 5 gurau comes out right for the Karttikadi-year 962 both of the Vira and Vikrama Eras, the corresponding day being Thursday, 7th May 436 A. D. and 1st May 906 A. D. ( old style ) respectively; however on the former date the Moon was in Pusya, and on the latter in Punarvasu, and as Siddharsi gives expressly the Nakshatra
