Letters to Vijayendrasuri

Author(s): Kashinath Sarak
Publisher: Yashodharma Mandir

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his well-known eagerness to cooperate with western scholar and to help them in their work, and are very glad to note that you are following in his footsteps in this as in other respects.
I have also received from the Jaina Directory Office the paper to fill out as to my activitites and enclose the same filled out to the best of my ability, although I cannot claim any real achievements in the line of specifically Jaina research, and feel that hardly have the right to be included in the honourable company which you are proposing to collect in your 'Jaina Directory.'
I note that you would like to receive the "Journal of the American Oriental Society" which and accordingly have asked that you be elected a member of Society which implics the sending of the Journal. You will no doubt be especially interested in a long article in the next issue of the Journal (Volume 48, Number 4) by Professor Maurice Bloomfield on the Salibhadra carita.
You graciously offer to help me with my own work, mentioning particularly the Vikrama Carita. I have edited and translated four sanskrit versions of that work all that were known to me in two volumes soon to appear in the Harvard Oriental series; as soon as they are published I shall take pleasure in sending you a copy. Through Miss Helen M. Johnson I learn that you or your associate Jain sadhus have informed her that there is a record of a Vikrama Carita and a Sinhasanadvātrincikākathā by Devamurti. This statement interests and surprises me considerably. The only Jain version of the Vikrama Carita known to me is one attributed to Kshemankara; this has been edited and translated by me in work named above. I should like very much, if it is possible, to see a manuscript of the work of this name attributed to Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat