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porary of Devasuri, while the latter's views are evidently more developed and consequenty later than those propossed by the author of the paar faqfet, As I have already copied the whole of this work (text & comn.), I should like of course to see it printed with extracts from start. The editions would be based on three Mss. for I can put those of Poona. I should be glad to add such notes which would be necessary for the right appreciation of this work. Couldn't you get it published in your Granthamālā ?
At any rate I should be much obliged to you for lending me your copy of the fecuait for a short time, if possible without much delay.
The Trutaat is a very useful book which will be of great importance for my studies; of course it is only a meterial for a critical work of this kind.
The interest you take in my papers is very fatering for me. Before long you wil receive the reprints of the Buddhist HE fe in my edition, which is just out. My other papers being in Russian or German could hardly be of much interest for you.
PROF. SHCHERBATSKOI is now staying somewhere near Bombay. I know his intention was to visit folit the abode of so many 774 faxra.
With many thanks, your truly
N. MIRONOV
P.S. My great countryman LEO TOLSTOI wrote to me that he would like to write a book about Jainism and would be
much obliged to you for all materials you would supply. I Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
