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admiration as to the best of all Jain Scholars. I am taking more and more interest in Jainism as I come to know a little more of it. You may have wondered that in France with the the exception of Dr. Guerinot nobody has practially been con cerned with Jainism. Let me tell you that this attitude is not due to a lack of interest on our side, but to a lack of books. We have not even one single collection of Jain Angas in our Universities and Libraries and after this long war we have to spend all our money in repairing the damages caused by the German invaders, over 2 lakhs of houses to rebuild-whole cities having been destroyed. But you will certainly be pleased to hear that one of my young pupils, Mr. Messon-Oursel, who is giving lectures at the University during my absence is just treating of the "the Present State of Jain Studies". If the Jain community is willing to present a full set of these Angas and latter works to the Library of our Paris University, I shall be delighted to turn the attention of my pupils in that line. Enlightened mind and liberality are found in your Jain community as I could see in Calcutta where I got acquanted with the Nabar family. They have shown me very kindly that Magnificent fan Tres which has now to be the undisputable companion of any Indian scholar; I can say that I really enjoyed the reading of it. I wrote immediately to Rutlam to get definite information about the price of the work about the number of parts which are still to be published etc., I never got any answer from the Press.
I bad also received last march, I believe an advertisement of a shorter Jain Dictionary ( prepared by Prof. Woolner, Punjab University) asking for subscription. I have sent my name, but I never received any answer. Will you be so kind to supply me with information about theset wo dictonaries? If
I am allowed to trouble even more I beg you to send me a Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
