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are some truly illustrious names and I make no doubt that yours will add new lustre to it.
May I put a question to the Itibasa Tattva Mahodadhi ? I got an ancient Mss, of the Bhavisattakaha; it is dated from Yoginipura. Can you help me to identify that place and tell me where it is situated ? You would thereby greatly oblige.
Yours very truly, HERMANN JACOBI.
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Bonn, 22nd August 1923,
Niebuhrstrasse 59. Dear sir,
I beg to thank you cordially for your kind letter of the 12th last giving me good news of yourself and the work you do. I am especially grateful for your answering my questions about Yoginipura. I remembered having read about it some. where, but was not able to find the notice in the book. I consulted. I then asked Sir George Grierson, but he too did not succeed in identifying Yoginipura. It is of interest to know that Delhi went by that name. For the oldest Manus. cript of the Bhavisattakaha was written (in 1372 A. D.) 119 that place. It is therefore rather likely that the poem also was composed in that province and that the idiom in which it is written belongs to the same.
I have not been able to do much literary work. The condi. tion under which we live in the occupied territory, are such as deprive one of the composure necessary for writing anything worth reading. Ruin is starving us in the face and if things are Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
