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continued under your guidance with all the enthusiasm and success that marked the Master's undertakings. Aside from the effect which bis enlightened liberal teaching has had upon Indian thought and Indian national feeling, the publications of the Shri Yoshovijaya Granthamala have been of inestimable advantage to Jaina scholarship, both east and west.
1 received duly Mr. Sunavala's charming little biography of the Suri, which I have read with great interest and pleasure. Please present to him my heartful thanks.
1 have also received from the Press its beautiful edition of Shri Vinayacandrasuri's Mallinatha Caritra which I have taken time to peruse at once. It is a most interesting Kavya product full of information in Jaina doctrine Jaina narrative and Jaina language. With it came a list of the publications of the Granthamala which shows well the range of its beneficient activities. I should like very much to obtain copies of the Neminatha Mahakavya (nr. 33), The Santinatha Caritra (nr. 43), The Upamitibhavaprapnca Katha (nr. 44), The Prithivandra Caritra (no. 47) and the Campaka Sresthi katha (nor. 53). If the press will send me these, along with a bill of their cost, I shall be glad to pay for them. I should also like to have Pertold's "The place and importance of Jainism" if you have it at your disposition. If you have any use of my work, Rig-Veda Repetitions (in two volumes) I should like to send you a copy to any address you may designate.
I bave ready for the press an essay of perhaps 75 printed pages on the Salibhadra or conversion of the merchant's son Salibhadra to Jaioa monkhood, which I had written to the late
Suri about it, and I think it would suit your ideas. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
