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taymen, knew that I was a student of Jainism, I have had most generous assistance, not only while I was in India, but manuscripts were sent to the in this country to keep as long as I needed them.:. :
. :.:. My stay in Indore was brief because of Shrī Vijaya Dharma sūri's illness which terminated fatally a few months later at Shivapuri, Gwalior. Muniji took an active part in the establishment of a memorial temple to Vijaya Dharma sūri and a boys' school in Shivapuri. He spent the caturmäsa of 1923 and 1924 in Agra, engaged in literary activities, arranging manuscripts, helping establish the Vijaya Dharma Lakshmi Jñanamandir and seeing to the publication of the first 'volume of his edition of the Uttarādhyayana-ţikā. In these activities, he had the whole-hearted active cooperation of Achārya Shri Vijaya Indra sūri, Muni Shri Vidyāvijayaji, Shri Mangalavijayaji and other monks, who were pupils of the same great teacher, Achārya Shrī Vijaya Dharma sūri. After a couple of years in Western India, during which Muni Jayantavijaya studied inscriptions at Mt. Ābu, he returned to Shivapuri to teach in the Boys' School. He spent the caturmäsa of 1927 there and remained there until the autumn of 1929. It was during that time I spent several months in Shivapuri in almost daily conference with Muniji on the Trişhaşhțishalākāpuruşhacharitra. Shri Vijaya Dharma sūri's successor, Acharya Vijaya Indra sūri, had told me that Muni Jayantavijaya was the most qualified person in India to elucidate obscure points in the Trişhaşhți. I found this to be correct and I benefited from his learning and sound scholarship for many years. And several other foreigners also had the benefit of his learning and generous assistance at Shivapuri. ... After thiş term of teaching at Shivapuri, he left in the
