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those of Christianity & Vedanta. We Jains assemble every year in a conference for the last four years. The next gathering will be at Bhavnagar. It will be nearly in the month of March Can you conveniently attend that gathering? We here shall make every arrangement for your reception. Your presence in that assembly, which is attended to nearly by 2500 Jain deligates from all parts of India and 5000 visitors will be highly welcome and we shall have the good fortune of seeing the face of the person who works so hard for us all, staying at a distance of thousands of miles. Besides you will add a spirit of enthusiasm among them for publishing books. We Jains were sleeping in a long slumber and are awakened but to a small extent for some time. If you can read Gujarati I will be glad to send you all reports, speeches &c. of the Conference.
You will please send me two copies of your photograph, one for me and the other to be kept in the Jain Dharma Prasaraka Sabha. This is a mere request to be attended, if not inconvenient at leisure.
Please to send the following books by Value Payable Parcel Up till now we were not aware of their existence also नीर्यावलीसूत्र मूल. आचारांगमूल in Roman character. कल्पसूत्र मूल with translation in German (poetry).
बृहत्कल्प भाष्य Roman. कथाs from आवश्यकसूत्र. 45 Agama's Sara in English.
. कालीकाचार्य कथा in Roman char Comparison of पंचतंत्र. 8th अध्याय by पिश्चल. पायलच्छी नाममाला.
Please name a bookseller, so that in future I may not have to trobble you.
I am informed you have written a long dis-course on Jainism in the Encyclopædia of Religions. Please to send a copy of the same here if found so useful on this sides. I hope this will find you in good health. Hoping to be excused for the trouble. Yours sincerely.
Motichand G. Kapadia.
N. B. I send you by this mail a list of published by the conference-the next list, of the same proportion relates to न्यायथs.
