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the opening ceremony of your library: on the 21st of April. I have a strong sympathy for your wishing it success.
Yours sincerely, RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Dr. Jahangir Tawadia Ph. D. Hamburg University (Germany)
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Hamburg 24, 5th July 1924.
Ifflandstr. 53 I. Dear Suriji,
Please excuse me for writing these lines to you. I hope you will pay your kind attention to them.
I am a Parsi graduate and have come over here as a lecturer of Gujarati, Hindi etc. on the one hand, and of Avesta, Pahlavi etc. on the other. As the libraries bere do not possess Gujarati and Hindi books, I requested my well-wisher and friend Mr. G. K. Nariman. He sent a number of books among which I found some interesting books on Jainism. They aroused my interest for the subject. The name of the late lamented Vijaya Dharma Suri was known to me, and I read his life-history with great interest. His agat really deserves the praise bestowed upon it. I dare say you know Prof. Schubring, and that his chief subject is Jainism. He now and
then asked me to interpret Gujarati and Hindi commentaries he Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
