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-2University of Allahabad. SANSKRIT DEPAR I'MENT
“ Tirabhukti " Mahā mahopädhyāya
I. Allengunj Road. Dr. UMESHA MISSRA
ALLAHABAD. KAIVYATIRTH M. A. D. Litt.
18th Augusu 1943. Dear Shri Muni Ratna Prbha Vijayaji.
Many thanks for all the four volumes of your valuable book śramaņa Bhagavân Mahāvīra. The volumes contain much intersting and important matter on different aspects of Jainism. I could read several portions from these volumes, and I am glad to find them very lucid, and is formative. It is a matter of great satisfaction that our religious heads are briniging out the treasures of Jainism in English, so that they may be easily available to all. These are undoubtedly authoritative,
I am sure, those intersted in the religion and Philosophy of Jainism, will find these volumes very intersting and beneficial.
Yours Sincerely
(Sd) UMESHA MISHRA.
-3Extract from Modern Review, March 1944 Presidential Address (Philosophy and Religion Section) delivered at the Twelfth All India Oriental Conference held at Benares Hindu Uiversity, Benards.
( December 31-1943 and January 1 & 2. 1944) The Jaina Sadhus have been writing in Sanskrit for a pretty long time on Jaina thoughts, It is gratifying to find that they have lately begun to write in English also, to popularise their thoughts. This will enable us to have more authentic books based on original sources and traditions of the Sampradāya: It is our ffrst duty to preserve the traditions whic'ı also can guide us like a torch, in our scholarly pursuits to bring into light the hidden
