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Foreword
credit goes to the highly learned and energetic Pandit Shri Dalsukh Malvania. Had I not gone there and even after having gone there bad I not received his conscious co-operation this work of mine must have been delayed and in some respects remained somewhat loose and incomplete. He is of course a student of mine but even more than that he is a good-hearted friend to me. Hence without expressing in relation to him a word of obligation I simply remember him here.
Even after a rough draft of the text has been prepared work has to be done on it in so many ways. I am myself one dependent on another's eyes but I go on getting friends possessed of eyes. After my return back to Ahmedabad so many friends have rendered me help - and with good will - in giving a final form to that rough draft, but I do not wish to detain the reader by mentioning them by name; however, I also cannot do without mentioning by name three of these friends. Shriyuta Rasiklal C. Parikh, who is director of the B. J. Institute working under Gujarat Vidyasabha and is a thoroughgoing scholar versed in so many subjects, is to me a friend of long standing and companion of long standing. It has since ever been my idea that whenever I write or think about a serious topic I present the result before public only after having recieved his seal of approval. So I got read to him all these five lectures of mine. He gave his approval and at places also suggested improvements. In my mind 1 place high value on this act of his. Dr. Indukala H. Jhaveri, who has been a student of mine, has not only taken hard pains in preparing the final manuscript of these lectures but the complicated and tiring work of preparing the index is also her doing.
My young friend Dr. Bhogilal Sandesara, who is director of the Oriental Institute and head of the Gujarati Department at the Baroda University, was since the very beginning insistent that I should accept the invitation for these lectures. And I did accept it. When I went to Baroda to deliver these lectures, then too I stayed at his place. Though he him. self was then in America his wife Shrimati Chandrakanta proved to be his true representative. Thus right from accepting the invitation for these lectures upto delivering them and getting them prepared in book form
in this long, long process the Sandesara family has been associated in so intimate a fashion that this foreword cannot be ended without recalling that association
Sukblal
Saritkunj, Ahmedabad-9
18-11-1958
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