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August 6, 1924. My dear friend,
I have read with much appreciation your little volume of Reminiscences of your noble Guru. It must have been a plea. sure to you to read and put together so many testimonies to the value of his work, testimonies so plainly inspired by real feeling. They have not ceased to appear, and I have read another eloquent eulogy by Professor Sylvain Levi upon the departed saint. The shrine which you have built at Shivapuri will permanently attract the thoughts of discerning people as well in the West as in India.
I am also very grateful to you for so kindly procuring for mea copy of the two parts of the Paiasadda-mahannava, of which I had heard from Professor Leumann, and concerning which we have published a note by him in the last number of the 'Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.' I have myself consulted the book and found it useful. It is based upon a very large number of texts.
I am seeing through the press Prof. Faddegon's translation of Kundakunda Acharya's Pravacana-sara with the Tattvapradipika of Amrtacandra Suri. The commentary is, I need not say, a very difficult work, and great care is needed to ensure the correctness of the translation. We have had difficulty with some words, such as darsana, which was origi. nally translated 'faith' but we bave now preferred “insight' or 'vision': for upayoga we have given 'mental exertion' but no doubt 'thought-activity' would have been better; in English however, 'mental' does not imply manas. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
