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Now I have some questions and requests, good enough to trouble you in your busy season. But you must excuse me, then I am a stranger, and need help and who can give it to me else except yourselves.
At first I am in want of Jaina canon viz: Sutras. I applied for them through Prof. Kapadia to Agamodaya Samiti, but in vain. Prof. H. R. Kapadia was rebuked in a harsh way by the Manager and told that the books can be sold only to the members. There some Sutras (Kalpa, Uttaradhyayan, Dasavai-kalik) published in Jain Bhaskaroday Office (Pandit Hiralal Hansraj Jamnagar.) but Prof. H. R. Kapadia is not sure if they are good and reliable editions. I will be very much obliged to you, if I can get any information on this subject.
Then I was told by Prof. H. R. Kapadia, that there is an article about infinitive Numbers of Jaina Philosophy (in english). Can you inform me, where this article has been published? It would be of great importance to me, to know it.
The third request does not touch Jainism at all, but I was informed by Prof. Kapadia, that you can help me. I need very urgently two copies of Carudatta by Bhasa (one for myself, second for my friend) which has been published in Trivandrum-Sanskrit-Series. I wrote to the Manager (Ganapatim S'astrim) already three times but I did not get any reply upto now. Can you induce the man by your & Acharya Maharaja's influence that he may send the required book on my address by V. P. P. It is now really very hard to get the required books at least in Bombay.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
www.umaragyanbhandar.com
