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pleasure and pay our respect to all the authors whose articles have been collected and compiled in XX volumes and specially those, whose articles have been selected and put together in this Granth. Copyright acknowledgements are given at the bottom of the first page of their articles. Pujya Mrigendra Vijayji M.S. had joined us on our first trip and gave his blessings. We wish to pay our respect to Pujya Ganivarya Naypadmasagar M. S. Under his guidance we organized many exhibits and seminars. Pujya Roopchandraji M.S. has been to Kailash with another group and has performed pooja there. We wish to pay our respect to Bhai Shri Nalin Bhai who visited Kailash recently with his group. Our special thanks to Pujya Nirmal Sagarji, Pujya Charukeerti Bhattarakji and Pujya Manak Muniji for their blessings during the Granth I opening ceremony. We wish to pay our respect to Pujya Chitrabhanuji who always encouraged us to carry on the work on Ashtapad. Many individuals have helped in collecting research related articles. Dr. Kumarpal Desai helped in collecting Ashtapad literature which was put together in XX volumes. Special thanks to Shri Pramesh Gandhi, Shri Bharat Hansraj Shah, Dr. Lata Bothra, Dr. Ajit Kumar Shah, Shri Mayur Desai, (Late) Dr. Kamal Sogani, Shri Vimal Bordia and all research team members and many other individuals whose list is endless. We wish to thank our research team members- scholars and scientist's whose names appear along with sponsor's pages. Special thanks to Shri Jitendra Shah, Director at L.D. Institute of Indology and the staff where later part of research work was co-ordinated. Many thanks to all the donors whose contributions have helped to organize all three research trips. Their names are given along with sponsor pages. We wish to thank all our sponsors whose generous donation has helped to print this Granth (both parts), DVDs and Bookmark. We wish to thank members, Executive Committees and Board of Trustees (past and present) at Jain Center of America Inc., New York for granting us the permission to construct the temple and install Shri Ashtapad Maha Tirth with Shri Chovisi at JCA. They took responsibilities for printing both parts of the Granth under JCA banner. Ashtapad Maha Tirth replica was carved and put together by Mohnot Brothers- Nareshji, Dineshji and Rakeshji of Mohnot Gems, Jaipur. My cousin Navin Shah has helped us all along in supervising the work at Jaipur. Kailash Mansarovar video of our trip was edited and provided by Dr. Kirit Gosalia. Ratna Mandir video was provided by Dr. R Shah. Pratishtha video was provided by JCA and both videos were edited by Mr. Upendra Bhargav of Jaipur. Granth opening ceremony video was provided by Rajendra Bafana. Satellite Imagery was provided by Geo Eye and Indian space satellite and put together by P.S. Thakker and Shashikant Sharma. DVD was made available by Mr. Vijay Nahata of Kolkata. Bookmark was prepared by Mukesh Sharma and his team at Jaipur. Our thanks to Rahul Jain and Ms. Sonali Daga who organized and put all the articles together and prepared and printed all the XX volumes at New York. At the same time we wish to thank Shri Vimal Bordia who took care of printing at Jaipur and mailing all the volumes. He also looked after Ashtapad research activity for last 10 years at Jaipur.
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