Book Title: Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald 1915 Book 11 Jain Itihas Sahitya Ank
Author(s): Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Jain Shwetambar Conference
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The Date of Siddharshi.
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tion of a Sripujya in relation to the other ars. There are a good many questions of this Kind concerning the present state of the Jaina church which I should like to ask, which I should easily have answered by a short stay in India. I therefore should gladly avail myself of your invitati n to at. tend the next Conference in Bhavnagar and I make no doubt that our Government would give me leave; but it will not do more and it certainly will not pay me the travelling expenses. Now I calculate that the cost of the journey inclusive of the stay in India for about four months will be about 4000 Rs. This is much above my means. I have to live on my appointment as Professor and as I have to provide for a large family, I am obliged to give up such a plan however much I should like to accept your invitation. Still I heartily sympathise with the efforts of your enlightened men, to publish the treasures of your literature, and with the modern movement for progress in matters educational. I do so not because I share your religious persuasion ( for I may describe myself as an adherent of the system of our greatest Philosopher Kant ), but I admire the moral tendency of Jainism which agrees in many points with the ethics of the remaining civilised mankind, and I admire also much that the Jains have achieved both in arts and literature.
By the same post I send you my photograph for the Jaina Dharma Prasaraka Sabha. I have no more copies left, so I shall send you another copy as soon as I get one.
By next mail I shall send you the Kalpasutra and Kathas from the Uttaradhyayana Tika. As regards the other warks you desire, I shall send the list to a Bookseller Otto Harrassowitz at Leipzig' giving him your address.
I have not yet written the article on Jainism for the Encyclopedia of Religious. When it is printed I shall send you a copy.
Yonirs sincerely,
H. JAGOBỊ.
