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With all our best wishes and greetings,
SYLVAIN LEVI.
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Paris. 21. 2. 1924.
My dear friend,
Just a word to ask you what I am expected to do with the press copy of Natya Darpana which you have so kindly sent me. I have written on it and another that of the same kind, NATAKALAKSHANA RATNAKOSA (which I have discovered in Nepal) a long note to be published in the next number of 'Journal of Asiatiqua', paying there my tribute of respect of our dear Master Sri Vijaya Dharma. Now a colleague and a late pupil of mine Prof. Lacote, thinks of giving a french translation of the Natya-Darpan, if English translation has been, as yet prepared. Can I hand over to him the copy, I had received from you or have I to send it back to you ? Please let me know at your earliest convenience. I have bought the Abhidhana Rajendra and I am delighted in reading it, it is so wonderfully interesting and rich in information. Our dear Acharya Maharaj, I can in many cases refer to the texts themselves. If you ever can supply with some more, I shall be once more obliged to you. I shall send you if you like a list of the books I have already got. My wife joins with me in sending you our fresh greetings, we wish you may sometimes meet our son, the French Consulin Bombay.
SYLVAIN LEVI. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
