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Consul in Bombay, requesting him to forward it to your address. I expected it would travel safer that way. Please apply to the French Consul in Bombay on my behalf, he will certainly know about the said manuscript.
You tell me also of a long letter send to me from Khivandi in which you were giving informations about the fooding of Jain-Sadhus. This letter never did reach me, and I am particularly sorry of it. So I am very much interested in the matter. As for the books sent, I have regularly acknowledged receipt of every parcel, no acknowledgement means no parcel, This case of course is quite different with books sent to Paris after my departure. I hope I shall find them at home when I come back after one year. I wish it more specially for Uttaradhyayana Sutra with commentary as it is such an interesting work. I do not find anybody here interested in Jaina research. India means exclusively Buddhism for Japanese. I shall try to show them the peculiar interest of Jainism even viewed from the side of Budhism.
My wife begs to thank you for your kind Dharmalabha.
Yours very sincerely,
SYLVAIN LEVI
My pupil you are asking for is : Prabodh Chandra Bagchi 19, Wellington Street, Calcutta.
He is a very good scholar and a nice fellow and he can collect many intersting information about Jains from Chinese sources as he reads well chinese as well as Jaina Prakrat. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
