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desrves to find a place in the University curricula, It is expected that learned and sympathetic readers would accord a hearty welcome to this first volume of a noble series and in encouraging the publishers the readers would no doubt be doing an esteenied indirect service to the spread of the study of Jain and Ardha-Māgadhi literature.
Gujarat College,
AHMEDABAD Kartik Shukla 10
Samvat 1989. November 7, 1932.
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K, V. Abhyankar, Professor of Sanskrit and Ardha-Magadhi.