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Preface.
Nyāyatirtha Nyāyavishārada Munimahārāja Nyäyavijayaji is the author of this valuable sanskrit work • Adhyātmatattvāloka. The work being full of spiritual thoughts, is useful to men of diverse religions. Its style is lofty, smooth, natural and forcible. Ho expressed his desire that I should undertake to translate it into English and add explanatory notes for the benefit of the Jains and the non-Jains. The circumstances had been such as would hardly have permitted the task, but in spite of them, I yielded to the suggestion of the Munimahārāja. Fate had already dealt & crushing blow to me in my declining age by taking away my only son; the wound was hardly healed-I am afraid it is beyond cure-when a fresh blow was struck in the removal of my grandson. The careers of these have been very briefly sketched out further on. Without dilating on personal worries, I may say, it was such circumstances as these that at first mado me hesitate to take up the work; but at last I consented to do it, as I thought it would provide me solace in my sorrowsas it actually did-and as a Jain, it was a duty incumbent on me to contribute my humble share to the work of propagat. ing true knowledge of Jainism in the world. There are many misconceptions about Jainism among the non-Jains. To remove them is tha chief object with which notes, &c, are published. In preparing them, I have had to draw on many Jain standard works and English editions of some of them.
There are many difficulties in compiling such a work. In the first place, the subject matter is too abstruse to be easily comprehended by the ordinary man. One has to wade through a sea as it were before one can get to its end. The
