Agam 01 Ang 01 Acharanga Sutra

Author(s): K R Chandra, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: Prakrit Jain Vidya Vikas Fund Ahmedabad

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परिशिष्ट ' जैन आगमों के संपादकों एवं भाषा-संशोधक विद्वानों
के द्वारा कार्यान्वित करने योग्य एक उत्तम सुझाव (A Superb Proposal worth Execution by Research Scholars of
Linguistics and Editors of Jain Canonical Works)
artly
Date 26.2.1997 Dear Dr. Chandra,
I acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the appreciative remarks of cminent scholars about your pioneering work in restoration of Ur-AMG (Ardhamāgadhi) of the Āgamas.
As you know it both in my private letters to you and in research journals, I have expressed my appreciation of your pathfinding to Ur-AMG. Due to geographical distance between us and my prc-occupation with Sanskrit Mahāpurāṇas, I could not collaborate with you directly.
In fact yours is an Epoch-making Project worth undertaking by some Research Institute, preferably an institute for the restoration of Ur-AMG and not by frail old individual scholars like us.
I think you and like-minded scholars likc Dr.Malvnia should try or move the leaders of the community for founding such an Institute at Ahmedabad which is a suitable place from many points of vicw such as availability of MSS material, co-operation of competent scholars and last but the most important factor the liberal munificence of your community.
Kindly write to me about your academic activities for though I am 86, I still take interest in such research. With kind regards and thanks,
Yours sincerely,
G. V. Tagarc