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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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latter to use, if possible, that language which at present is the lingua franca of India. I am aware that in electing to write in English, I have not escaped the lot of those who in a foreign country write in a foreign language. But I trust that in spite of my mistakes my meaning will be intelligible.
My thanks are due to Dr. Bühler for the assistence he has given me, as well as to the lamented Dr. Paul Goldschmidt and to Dr. Eduard Müller, who both, one after the other, abandoned in my favour their undertaking to edit the Kalpasůtra. Finally I have to acknowledge with best thanks the liberality and readiness with which Dr. R. Rost, Librarian of the India Office Library, K. M. Chatfield Esq., Director of Public Instruction, Bombay, and Professor Lepsius, Chief Librarian of the Royal Library at Berlin, have complied with my applications for the loan of Manuscripts.
Münster, Westphalia 20th November 1878.
Hermann Jacobi.
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