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Mooni Shri Punya Vijayaji served the Jain community by expanding, saving and preserving the ancient scriptures. If he could get some hand-written letters or if he is placed in the library of hand-written books, he would not mind to eat or during even water and continue its study day and night without rest. He was as good as a mendicant under deep meditation at that time. It was a happy moment to see him under this condition. Mooni Shri Punya Vijayaji has worked of his own in various fields of expansion of knowledge. It is surprising that he could do such a huge work by his own. We cannot appreciate or evaluate his work in words. The learned personalities in India and abroad will realize the greatness of his work as the time passes. His works can be briefly summarized as under: - He examined and organized the stocks of books at Limbdi, Patan, Khambhat, Vadodara, Bhavnagar, Palitana, Ahmedabad and several places in Gujarat-Saurashtra and Rajasthan with the help of grandfather teacher and his teacher. He has prepared lists of such books at some places. Some detailed lists were also got printed. At several places, he arranged for cupboards, boxes, shelves and separate rooms for these books and copies of very high scriptural importance. He saved some stocks from vanishing. He had worked continuously for 16 months to preserve the stocks at Jesalmer. As there were many difficulties, so there were voluntary helpers also. He established Bharatiya Sanskriti Vidya Mandir and Maharaj Shri gave over thousands of hand-written and printed books as a present to this Mandir. This is an evidence of the greatness of Maharaj Shri PunyaVijayaji.
Progress in the Research Work of Scriptures: The scriptural phrases are the lifeline of Jain religion and culture. Maharaj Shri Punya Vijayaji studied scriptures in the modern style and revised their readings. He took up about 45 great books for study one by one and critically studied them. He then took help of 2-3 writers and prepared new editions and commentaries of these books. He had no money to pay these writers but e did not ask for money to anybody. In 1947-48, Sheth Shri Kasturbhai Lalbhai of Ahmedabad came to know this. He examined the work of Mooni Shri Punya Vijayaji and paid the dues of the writers. He also requested Mooni Shri to continue his work. The readings of these scriptures were last prepared 1500 years ago at Vallabhipur under the guidance of Shri Devarddhi Gani Kshama Shraman and now these were reviewed and revised by Mooni Shri Punya Vijayaji. Two of these books, viz. Nandi-Sootram with its original text and Nandi-Sootram with various comments have been published in 1966-68. He has been appropriately addressed as Agam Prabhakar in appreciation of his great works like these. Mooni Shri Punya Vijayaji had handed over all the money, which were received at Kapadwanj celebrations, Vadodara celebrations and Mumbai chaturmaas Parivartan for the publication of scriptural books. He reorganized various stocks of scriptural books as under:
• To preserve the hand-written books. • To prepare informative lists of these books.
To arrange for providing these copies to the studying intellectuals and students in India and abroad and ensure its best use for the purpose. Arranged the pages of these books in chronological order and used some medicines and chemicals so that these can be well preserved without being damaged by white-ants and other insects. He obtained ancient books, ancient and modern pictures, art-pieces, art-material of wood or metal, small idols hand-written books containing pictures, preserved them and classified them
so that the same can be provided to research scholars for study. He did all this work with his own intuition and inspiration of Shri Vijaya Nemi Soorishwarji Maharaj, Shri Kantivijayaji Maharaj, Shri Chaturvijayji Maharaj, Shri Vijaya Dharm Soorishwarji Maharaj and others. These personalities helped him also at several occasions.
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