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troubling you with so many questions. I wish that you will have soon recovered fully, and that I find you in perfect health when I pay you a visit, probably in the course of September. I shall not miss to inform you in advance of the time of my coining, as advised. I hope I can find a place to put up there for one day.
I am over delighted to hear that you will try your utmost to supply me the full set of Jain Angas and later works. That means a new departure in my work, and I feel confident that with the help of my pupils, such a precious gift will turn fruitful. I have just in these very last days become aware of some important collections I had never heard of: Manikchand Ray Chand Gandbi, Srinatha Rangaji. I am getting more and more anxious to bring back home a full report of these Jaina Activities. I have send a letter this week to the editor of Arthamagadhi Dictionary suggesting bim some changes for the better, I believe. For the Ratlam Dictionary, I am awaiting the promised informations. I am growing more and more anxious to meet you, to see you and to hear you.
You mention the name of Major Phatak as your Doctor. I wonder if he is the same Major Phatak who came to the French port, who was a friend of my late dear pupil Prof. Ghate while he was staying in Paris and whom I met later so unexpectedly in Jerusalem, with the Indian troop. If he is the same, Shivpuri will have one more attraction. I am, my dear Acharya, yours sincerely,
SYLVAIN LEVI I am leaving Nepal on the 24th instant and I shall spend a fourtnight in Santiniketan with Rabindranath Tagore. More. over, any letter send clo. French Consul Calcutta or Bombay will reach me. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
