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PRE FACE
Since 1945 I intimately knew the late Shri A. K. Doshi, wellknown industrialist and Founder President of Jain Sahitya Vikas Mandal (JS VM) at Vile Parle (West).
Very often he had requested me to undertake some work for publication in the said JSVM Series but it never materialized. A day before his death I happened to go to him to enquire of his health as he was ailing and was literally bed-ridden. Little did we both know then that life that was spared for him was only for a day more. The same topic of my undertaking some work was opened by him. Just to please him, I expressed my desire to undertake translation into Gujarati of the “ Jain Moral Doctrine" by H. S. Bhattacharya.
But somehow I could not find the undertaking interesting and thus dropped the idea. A few years after Amritlalbhai's sad and sudden demise, when Shri Chandrakantbhai the worthy son of a worthy father and the present managing trustee again opened the same subject and I immediately offered him to take up the Jnanasara of Mahopadhyaya Yashovijayaji, which I was preparing along with Gunapala's Jambucariyam as an awardee of the University Grants Commission. He whole-heartedly consented and the result is now before the reader.
In the preparation of this book I have copiously drawn on the two excellent editions of Jnanasara (V. S. 1997) one by Pandit Bhagvandas Harakhchand and the other by Munishri Bhadraguptavijayaji (V. S. 2033).
Despite the constraints of a fragile health, I have tried my best to make the readering as flawless as possible keeping in view specially the English-knowiog people. This has forced me to avoid the technicalities as far as possible. It was my earnest desire from the very outset to present it in such a simple way that the reader who does not know any language other than English can thereby profit. It is for those readers to say how far I have succeeded.
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