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memory of your saintly predecessor. Kindly convey my pranama to everybody.
The young German who wanted to come to India is a pupil of me and also of Jacobi and Lūdus. The Indian authorities have not, however, allowed him to go. I hope that he will come next year, and I think that he would be happy to work with you in Shivpuri or in Agra and to live together with you and your pupils. He knows Sanskrit and Prakrit and could do useful work in editing Jaina texts or otherwise. I shall ask him to write to you, as soon as he sees his way to come to India.
I shall leave this place on 24th and go to Calcutta. On the 7th of February I shall lecture in Agra and then go to Benares and further to Chaterpore, Gwalior and Agra, when I hope to arrive about the 15th. Hence we go to Udaiupr, Jaipur Mount Abu and other places in Rajputana. We expect to be in Delhi about the end of Febrary. Thence we go to Lahore, Taxila and Peshawar and then probably to Bombay. We shall leave for good about the beginning of April, we sincerely and confidently hope to meet you somewhere before we leave, to receive from your Dharmalabh and to thank you for your kind. ness and for your friendship which we trust will follow us to one country far away in Uttarapatha.
With all good wishes and sincere Pranama from my wife and yours sincere friend,
STEN KONOW (11)
Oslo, Norway 21. 1. 26. My dear Jainacharya,
Many thanks for your kind letter of the 4th ult. You are quite right in reproaching me for not having written to you Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
