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Motichand G. Hapadia, Esquirè, B. A. LL. B., Solicitor, High Court, Bombay,
I return today your dissertation on Drishti. I have gone through it carefully, I find it is very interesting and written in flowing language..........
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The form in which the whole thing is written is appro priate and style extra-nice, diction fair and expression pointed.
Natwarlal Maneklal Surti, Esquire, B.A, LL.B., City Magistrate, Bhavnagar,
Through the courtesy of the English translator and joint editor Mr. Motichand J. Mehta, I was priviléged to go through the proofs of the art, a work dealing with Spiritual life and the practical process of realisation of that life, from the peculiar standpoint of Jainism.
This is no dry theological work, written in a dialectic spirit, in which the author spends his learning and his intellect in barren and profitless controversies and faultfinding with systems other than his own. But it is the work of an earnest and practical student who himself has set out upon the glorious Voyage and is endeavouring, in his own life, to practise those virtues of self-discipline and self-denial &c., which he commends to others as being necessary for reaching the haven of Salvation. This it is, which invests the book with a living interest; and while the principles and practices. of Jainism find a natural prominence in it, both the learned author and his able colaborator have missed no opportunity of emphasing the points of contact in essentials, which Jainism, has with other sister religious systems; and the differences where they exist, have been discussed in a respectful and
