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had been appointed the Successor of that unrivalled Master an Acharya Maharaj Vijaya Dharma Suri. We are both, my wife and myself, keeping his last message calling his high spirited and lovely words and manners. I suppose you have received in time the few lines I had written of the praise and gratitude. I never got the letter referred to in your note dated 20th October 1922 about Natya Darpane (a) asking me what I did think about it. Where had you sent that letter? and may be the copy of the said .. I had given you my address c/o. French Consul, Bombay. I beg to remind you that the present French Consul is my son and that he will be delighted to get acquainted with you.
I shall be delighted to hear more of your activity, as a scholar and as the head of the old Jain community. I had written to you some months ago enquiring about the works left unfinished by our dear Acharya Maharaj. The learned world would like to know about them and to have that the publication is going on. First of all, this book on Tirthas and Sacred places of every description, the proof of which I was shown at Shivpuri, full of references and extracted from the whole of Jain literature.
My wife begs to join with me in sending to yourself, your diciples and your brethern our best greetings.
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SYLVAIN LEVI.
Paris, November 19, 1923.
My dear friend,
I was delighted reading your letter dated Oct. 29. You prove a worthy heir to Acharya Maharaj; he has certainly Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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