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Foreword It so happened that I went to Sitakund in the Monghyr district of Bihar last March to set up a tablet there in memory of my ancestor Sah Manohar Das-seventh in direct ascent from me--who had visited the place in the early years of the nineteenth century ; had renovated the tank and constructed a temple on the spot. My good and esteemed friend Dr. Sri Krishna Sinha, Chief Minister of Bihar, was kind enough to come down to unveil the same. It was then that I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. P. C. Roy Choudhury, Special Officer in charge of rewriting the District Gazetteers under the Government of Bihar for the first time. I had however already reason to be grateful to him for having found out various details pertaining to the tank; the visit of Sah Manohar Das to the place a century and a half back ; and the work that he did there in a spirit of pure philanthropy. It was due, in no small measure, to the kind assistance of Mr. Roy Choudhury that the function was made possible and given official sanction and recognition.
It is indeed an honour that he has done me by now asking me to write a foreword to his valuable brochure on Jainism in Bihar. I feel hesitant to do
