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परिशिष्ट नं० १०
DHOLPORE. 4-4-25.
Dear Sir,
I have already communicated my views on Jainism which are the same as yours. The circular letter of the publishers now reed. from you is unconvincing and aims at perpetrating the errors that have been pointed out in your circular letter in the interest of truth. The publishers seek to justify their incorrect and misleading views on the ground that others before them have done the same. No foreign writer, however eminent he or she may be, can be relied upon in such matters unless he or she gives in full the reasons of his or her differing from the traditional views of the followers of that religion. A blind man leading a blind man, can constitute no justification. If other European writers have fallen in the same mistake they are all to be condemned. We hold no briefs for Smith, Sinclair or their ¡likes. Their views, unless fully explained in the light of discoueries are dogmatic, and no writer has the previlege of misleading the boys of a religion that they profess. The publishers ouht to thankfully acknowledge their
