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Freiburg, Germany, Schwaighofstr 5. August 16, 1924.
Dear Suri,
Your letter dated July 7 and the three parcels containing the Visesavasyakabhasya with commentary bave safely reached me. I do not know how to thank you for this magnificent edition which is really a master - piece of learning. Formerly I had worked for years at the Bhasya and at the commentaries of Silanka and Hemachandramaladharin. Unfortunately the publication which I then prepared was never finished and so it has not appeased; only a series of proof-sheets became ready and copies of them I sent to Dr. Ramkrisna Gopal Bhandarkar which now are preserved at Poona in the Bhandarkar Research Institute Library. This was told me sometime ago by the well known sanskrit scholar Jinavijayamuni (famous particularly by his pamphlet on the age of Haribhadrasuri). I shall soon take up again the study of Jinabhadra's Bhasya at the hand of the brilliant edition I owe you.
Meanwhile I can send you nothing else whatsoever than a little curiosity in which I have put down some recollections of my boyhood. Its title is in German "Tertianer-Erinnerugen eines Sprachforschers" viz in English "Recollections of the lower classes of the Gymnasium (or you might say "Grammar school recollection) put down by a linguist or a sanskritist.
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The chief reason why I have written out the booklet is to express my acknowledgment to my then teacher Dr. FRIEDRICH HAAG whose picture you find on page 9. So it should be a sign of pupil's gratitude on my part comparable to that which you Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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