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for the violation of the various vows and rules of conduct. In the third part we have the Sanskrit Text of "Prayaschitta Samuchchaya" and the penances provided for the house holder's transgressions are given in the Appendix. The book is neatly printed and nicely got up.
Sayings of Vijaya Dharma Suri. Translated by Dr. Charlotte Krause Ph. D. (Leipzig) and published by Phulchandji Baid, Secretary, Shree Yashovijaya Jain Granth mala, Bhavnagar.
The name of Sri Vijaya Dharma Suri is familiar to all those who are interested in the study of Jainism both in the east and in the west. He was a great Jaina monk, scholar, thinker and writer. He has written a number of works in Sanskrit, Hindi and Gujerati all of which have appeared in the Yashovijaya Jaina Granth mala series The book under review gives us in English translation 108 sayings of the great Acharya selected from his different works by the Reverend Muni Vidya Vijaya at the suggestion of the Reverend Acharya Vijaya Indra Suri, sucessor and disciple of the late Vijaya Dharma Suri. A perusal of the sayings will show that the moral laws and the ethical codes of all the Indian religions were almost identically the same In the words of the Translator, "The translation aims less at a philologically literal rendering of words, than at an accurate interpretation of ideas, which might enable even the average Non-Indian reader easily to follow." The book is neatly printed on high class feather-weight paper, each page having only one saying in the middle, and nicely got up.
Music of the Spheres by Ruth Halcyone. pp. 74.
This is a fine collection of some of the Messages received in writing by the author since August 22, 1924, at Halcyone Woods, California, through the law and Reality of Spiritual communion with high realms of Nature. We have in this book the messages from Swami Vivekananda, F. L. Rawson, John M. M-,King Tut Ankh Ammon, Thomas Lake Harris, Thomas H. Ince, Chief Pokenta and Mother Emanu-el. The chapter on Spiritual communion covering nearly 30 pages is Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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