Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald 1915 Book 11 Jain Itihas Sahitya Ank

Author(s): Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Jain Shwetambar Conference

Page 43

به يه نية بة فردية في عية بية عربة سي بيا بيا ب يه
The Date of Siddharshi.
249 grandness and beauty of the principles prescribed in Jain scriptures, I will try to read it at the sessions of the next Jain Conference which will be early in the beginning of November next and one thing is certain that coming from your pen it will have a magic effect. This is a mere sug. gestion only. Hoping this will find you in good health.
yours obediently. M. G. Kapadia.
Underseen 30th 1905. Dear Sir,
Your kind letter reached me here in the mountains of Swizzerland where I am enjoying myself to recover health after a short illness. I shall be glad to see the 2nd volume of the fafestara goraida and shall let you know the remarks which will occur to me on examining it—My interpretation of the verse satura TITETT “knowing the future” or “ knowing what would happen” I now try to explain. Supposing you had derived some significant spiritual benefit from Muni Sundara's work, making you as it were a new man, you wonld not put it in this way: "Muni Sundara, knowing by his pre. science that I ( Kapadia ) would receive enlightenment from his Adhyatma Kalpadruma, composed this work.” You would think this an unqualifled piece of presumption. In the same way Siddharshi would be open to the charge of want of modesty, if he pretended that Haribhadra, dead more than 400 years at his time, had composed the work in question with a view of his benefit.
But if he knew him personally, he might say so without arrogance, if the work of his beloved teacher quite fitted his religious wants and brought about his conversion. Similarly, if you would in this way speak of the work of your teacher, there would be nothing to blame and your expression would be simply an agigifoto.