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I am very glad to have an opportunity to pay my respect to Acarya Muni Punyavijayaji, Agama Prabhakara, who is my esteemed friend. for many years But of his many performances I should like to mention his monumental edition of Brhatkalpabhasya which can serve as a model to all those in his country who are preparing the publication of works hitherto unedited and his organisation of that vast collection of manuscripts which thanks to the printed catalogue will open the treasury of Jain and other literatures for public use. May he live to see many more years in good health !
Dr. Walther Schubring
Professor University, 2, Hamburg, 52, Borchlingweg 33,
GERMANY.
My acquaintance with Muni Sri Punya vijayaji began in the autumn of 1928, when I went to India to examine and photograph manuscripts dealing with the story of Kulaka. One of the cities where I spent time on this mission was Patan, where I sought out Muni Catura Vijaya. Muni Punya Vijaya, then a young man, was a disciple of Mani Catura Vijaya, and was deputed by his master to search out and bring me manuscripts. Young as he was then, no one could have been better informed than he about the contents of the many Jain libraries in Patan, and even more, nobody could have been more helpful in utilizing his knowledye in my behalf.
This assistance to scholars, particularly to scholars from abroad, has been characteristic of Muni Punya Vijaya throughout the forty years that have passed since I first met him. He has many times since 1928 given help to me, and many more times has given help to students or colleagues of mine engaged in Jain studies. His own great knowledge has always been available to anyone who sought it, and it would be impossible to assess the total amount of kindly service he has given to American and Enropean inquirers. This I speak of from my own knowledge; in the case of Indian inquirers I have not the same direct personal information, but I think it likely that the situation with them is the same as with foreign scholars.
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