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have been good enough to send me. It has given me great pleasure to read this sketch of the life of one whom have learnt to honour and to love. Might I ask you to convey my best wishes to His Holiness.
Your sincerely, Sten Konow
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Etnografisk Museum. My Dear Upadhyaya,
Thank you very much for informing me of the decease of your well-beloved Guru Vijaya Dharma Suri. Though I never met him, it is to me as if I had lost a dear friend. His letters breathed benevolence and sympathy, and I always was struck with the comprehensive love of humanity to which every line which he wrote bore witness. What he has been able to accomplish for the investigation and proper understanding of Jainism and for the propagation of the noble truths revealed by the Jaina is marvelous. To us, who love India without being Indians, it is gratifying to think of his broadness of view, which led him to think that co-operation between the East and West in the study of the past is the best way towards the aim we all have in view. I keenly feel how great the loss is which we have all sustained, but I seek some comfort in the thought that he has left able disciples like yourself, who will carry on work. I feel confident that you will be true to the inheritance laid on your shoulders and that the work so well began will be continued. India is gradually finding her way back to her own soul, and the ancient ideals of Indian thought, the disinterested Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
