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Gautsa. Dak Bungalaw, Chumbi Valley, Tibet, April 14. 1921.
My dear friend,
Possibly you may be thinking that in the fury of my travelling I have passed beyond the limits of the universe and disappeared in āloka. So long a time has passed since I was last with you ( February 6 ) and since I last wrote to you and received letters from you. I have indeed travelled very far since that time, having visited inuch of Rajputana, and then Agra and Delhi and the North-West, as far as Peshawar and the Khaibar, and on my return eastwards Lahore, Delhi, Lucknow, Allahabad, Benaras, Patna, Buddha-Gaya, Parasnath, Calcutta and Puri. From Calcutta I came away north on April 6, and I am now, as you will see from the address given above, far away from the railway, in a Himalayan valley of Tibet. I am continuing northwards and shall not be in India again before the end of this month.
I am now enclosing the Preface to Mr. Sunawala's work.
I hope that you will approve of it. It was written a long while ago, but in the hurry and distraction of my constant changes of place and constant visiting of institutions and seeing of people, I have never until now been able to revise it with the necessary calm - indeed I have never even enjoyed the necessary free time. I have devoted to the matter the first leisure acquired by this retreat into Tibet. I enclose also the estimate of the cost of printing. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
