Book Title: Atmanandji Jainacharya Janmashatabdi Smarakgranth
Author(s): Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Atmanand Janma Shatabdi Smarak Trust
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Dr. Hoernle's Letters
is Muni Harakh Vijayji. The other day I made here (i. e. Calcutta) the acquaintance of Muni Hans Vijayji who was also represented to me as a disciple of Muni Átmârămji. Would you be good enough to let me have a list of all the Muni Átmäràmji's disciples in proper order, as well as of the disciples of the disciples (Shishya and prasishya).
I should also like The Muni Atmarámji to give me a full explanation of the term diksha. What is diksha? To whom is it given; to Sadhus or Sravakas or both? Who may give it? What are the ceremonies under which it is given?
I am going to Europe on furlough-I shall leave Calcutta towards the end of June, and Bombay on the 10th July by a Rubaus'no (?) Steamer. I shall probably travel by The Rajputana Railway, touching Delhi, Jeypore, etc. Will you please tell me, whether the Muni is likely, about that time, to be at any place on the Rajputana line? If so, I shall do myself the honour of calling on him and paying him my respects:
I am working at present at the preparation of the Jain Vriksha, and hope it may be published soon. I shall remember your wishes about it.
Yours truly
- A. F. Rudolf Hoernle
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Asiatic Society of Bengal, 57 Park Street Calcutta, 6 June, 1890
MY DEAR SIR,
I hope you have received my previous letter, and that I shall hear from you by & by whether there is any chance of my seeing the Muni on my way to Bombay.
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I now send you (registered) by book post a set of questions which please forward to the Muni with a request that he may be good enough to answer them. As you will see I have written the questions on one half of the page, leaving the other half blank, for the Muni to write his replies. Will you kindly explain to him, that he should let his replies be written on the blank spaces left by me, and that he
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