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volume of the Bibliotheca Jainica containing the Tattwarthadhigama Sutra shall be sent on anther occasion. With the kindest regards,
Your very sincerely, HERMANN JACOBI
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Bonn, 11th Nov. 25,
59 Niebuhrstrasse. My Dear Sir,
I had much pleasure in receiving your kind letter of 12th October from which I learn that you are doing well and exerting yourself as usual. I must plead guilty of having been or being a rather lazy correspondent, not so much for any particular reason or cause, but for want of any news to be communicated. Besides as I advance in old age, I have nearly completed my 76th year, I become a slow worker, and it takes me much more time to finish a task than it did when I had the pleasure of seeing you and your great guru. I therefore think it wise to economise such powers as still are left me and to employ them in research work about subjects which I know best and take the most interest in. However, it takes me much time and trouble to put on paper what I have found, and to write an article to my satisfaction. To write an exposition of Jain philosophy, if it is not afáradt would require years of study. For it is to be of lasting value, it must be based on study of the Siddhanta. The single tenetes should be traced to the oldest source within the Siddhanta, and this gradual development in its more recent parts must be described. This
I can no more undertake and, therefore, the task must be left Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
