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161 Woodstock Road, Oxford. October 3, 1934.
My dear friend,
I was happy to receive your kind letter of August 17, & I am greateful to you for sending me a copy of the second edition of your Reminiscences of our revered teacher, whose portrait is always a treasured presence in my place of study. You continue to manifest your faithful devotion to your lamented predecessor, & the little volume is a worthy record of his work and of the impression which it left in India and among students through out the world. The views of the MemorialTemple will open the eyes of your readers to the greatness of memorial which you have raised in his honour and which is working, I am sure, great benefit for your community.
In England we are now nearly at the end of the University vacation, and I think that I have employed the time to good effect. I have nearly finished my long labour on Tibetan records from Central Asia and I think we have at length really completed the work on the translation of Kundakunda's Pravcana sara which will be published before long. I have had to write the introduction myself, as the translator has been out of health, and it was somewhat difficult because it was necessary to read all the works of Kundakunda and to discuss the difficult question of his date. I wonder whether all Svetambaras agree that he was the predecessor of Umasvati; he seems to have been severe in his condemnation of some practices which Svetambaras do not dislike; but I gather that he is Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
