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according to your own words, help will be given to me by you in the peculiar wishes mentioned in that letter, and at other occasions. May I, in this respect too, welcome you as the successor of che revered Master.
I feel myself obliged to send back, with same mail, Acharriga Churni and two copies of Ajitashantistava text and cominentary, all three kindly borrowed to me some time ago. I am, Dear Upadhyaya,
Yours sincerely, W. SCHUBRING
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Hamburg, 2nd June 1923. Dear Sir,
I am very glad to receive from you the news of your being appointed successor of Shri Vijaya Dharma Suri in consequence of with the title of Acharya was conferred upon you. I beg to say you my warm congratulations to these events very important both for yourself and for the Jain community of India. As I am collecting information on modern Jainism not less than on the old one, it would be of very great interest for me to get a detailed description of the ceremonies performed at such an occasion and at the installation of the late Acharya Maharaj's Statue apart from the programme for the latter ones you kindly sent me in January. If such a description is to be had in any manuscript or printed books, I should like very much to make use of it.
To the kindness of your late predecessor, Iowe some volume of the new edition of the Agama sent to me by Mr. Ottamchand Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
