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Katmandu, Nepal, 26th August 1928.
My dear friend:
have reached Colombo on the 1st of August on my way home from Japan and Java. I had been hoping to pay you a visit and to enquire about the work which is now being done in the field of Jaina Scholarship. For two years, I have been in the Far East and did not hear anything about Jainism, though I have spent many efforts in trying to interest the Budhist Scholars of Japan in that line of research which is absolutely unknown to them. I have only met with one Jain there. Jain is also his name, a young man who is teaching Hindustani in the school for living languages at Tokyo. He is very pious and respectable but of course he has nothing to teach about his own creed.
Now I am in Nepal, but for few days more. I am leaving here on the 29th, going back via Calcutta to Colombo. I am urged to be back in Paris on the 1st of October; therefore I have no time for visiting Western India and I have to drop all arrangements which had been previously taken. I am very sorry to miss an opportunity I had been expecting such a long time but I hope you will write a long, long letter, about your activities and about Jain affairs. You will be glad I am sure to welcome a student of mine, Mr. Mus, a brilliant young scholar who is eager to be trained in Jainism, he will make a full study of it. I have given him a letter of introduction for you. Please convey my best respects to Mr. K. Mody, pleader at Allahabad who has been so kind in sending me many Jaina texts after his short stay in Paris. My wife wants to be reminded to you, who have been so kind to her; she also would Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
