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Godesberg Marktstr 4, 18. vii. 1922. Very Venerable Sir,
I have received the two manuscripts of the Suryaprajnapti and the three volumes of the Jambudvip and Suryaprajna. pti and I thank you very much. By this means I am now able to elaborate a critical edition of the latter text with an exhaustive introduction.
Further, I thank you for your kind offer to support my studies and researches on the Jainism and I beg you if I be not immodest and it be without any hardness for you, to send to me in course of time a print of the Jivabhigamasutra, of the Sthananga and the Samavayanga. These important texts do not exist in the University library of this country and in the library of Prof. Jacobi, and it is difficult to lend those for sometime out of the state library of Berlin.
When my essay on Jain astronomy will be printed, I should be very grateful, if the publisher of "Select Essays on Jainism" would send to me a proof of the print, because I am now able to insert a few of little additions and corrections.
I subjoin a photo from the year 1919. I don't have a better, because it is very expensive to have one's photo taken now.a. days in Germany, and I must employ all my income for my family.
Once again I render thanks. With sincere respect and regards,
Yours faithfully,
Prof. W. KIRFEL Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
