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The date of Siddharsbi.
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Punarvasu, the date must be taken as a Samvat date and not as a Vira date. Further Haribhandra was a guru of Siddharsi; now his date Samvat 585 cannot be taken as Vikrama date. But of we take it to be a gupta date, the date of his death is 904 A. D. which tallies very well with Siddharsi’s date 906 A. D. when he completed his ginraha999 fer-These are my opinions about this matter; I shall be glad to learn yours if you will send me a copy of your paper ( though I am a very poor Guzerati scholar indeed!)
As you offer to send the adis’vara charitra to Jain Scholars I name, besides Professor E. Leumam (Strassburg i. E. Sternwartstrasse 3. ( Germany ) three young Italians, partly pupils of mine, whom I have urged to take up Jainism their speciality and who may do good service by editing Jain text:, viz.
Dr. Luigi Suuli, Bonn, Germany Colmantstrasse 9. Dr. Ambrogio Ballini, Rome, Italy. Via Marghera 43, Dr. Ferdinando Belloni-Filippi Buti (Pisa), Italy.
The first of them, Dr. Suali, is now editing the aggiano A for the Bibliotheca Indica, the second, Dr. Ballini, is issuing an Italian translation of the second and third chapters of the Upamiti bhava prapancha Katha, and the third, Dr. Belloni, is contemplating critically to edit Hemachandra's Yogasastra with a Sanscrit commentary. If you could procure me for him two good Mss. for that purpose, you will lay me and hiq under great obligation.
With kind regards, I am, yours sincerely
JACOBI.
Bombay 16th June 1905. Dear Sir,
I am in due receipt of your letter of the 2nd May and in the first place I express my regret for the delay caused in replying. The copies of Adishwara Charitra are forwarded to Prof. Leumann, Dr. Luigi Suali, Dr. Ambrogio Ballini and Dr. Ferdinando Belloni. At the same time I have forwarded
