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You remember, perhaps, that the late VIJAYA DHARMA SURI promised me to use his influence for obtaining for me some post in India ( at a library or college). My terms unfortunately did not suit him (I had requested 1000 Rupees per month & passage for two persons to India and back, after 5 years service ). I fear I acted thus being ignorant of the state of things in your country.
Here I am earning ab. 700 Rupees a month. Would it be possible to get a situation at some Jaina institution on equal terms? (Though, of course, I am not sure that such is the salary of a foreign professor in India and am quite ignorant as to price of foreigner's life in that country ).
The most attractive task would be compiling of detailed Catalouge of Jaina Manuscripts or editing texts etc., though I am not averse to teaching.
May I hope you would kindly use your considerable influ. ence on my behalf ? I should like to make it understood that no lucrative motives determine my conduct; I make the present offer out of the desire of working for Science in India in congenial milieu of Vira's followers, out of seeing Indian soil and respiring the air of the country so familiar to me since my college days. Being however not a yati, but a man of the world, having a daughter to provide for, I have unfoutunately to discuss material questions.
Another service I am bold enough to ask for is as follows: the late Vijaya Dharma Suri requested me to write something for the Dipāli No. of the “Jaina-Shāsana" (Benares, 1911); I sent him a paper on "Dignāga's Nyāyapraveśa and Haribhadra's commentary on it”, that duly appeared in the said
journal. May I request you to be kind enough to send me a Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
