Letters to Vijayendrasuri

Author(s): Kashinath Sarak
Publisher: Yashodharma Mandir

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for these works because they enable me to get a full and profound knowledge of many of the most important points of Jainism. Your notes on Jarayuja and Potaja on Kakiniratna Samudghata, Nigoda, Pudgalaparavarta are of the greatest value for me. I feel very much obliged that you have answered my questions in so clear and scholarly way and regret only that I have taken you much of your time. But I hope you will see that your endeavours are not lost, for I shall make use of all the materials you gave me to give to my people a correct and sympathetic account of the doctrines of Jainism.
I write this letter not from Berlin, where my permanent home is, but from a little country place Wittenwoor near Vinzelberg, where I spend some holidays. I have taken the Partimashtaka with me and also the Pancapratikramana and read hear both these books. Some days later on I shall return to Berlin.
I am member of the German Oriental Society and at the last conference of the Society I was secretary.
Please tell the Gentleman who wishes to study the German language, that one of the best books for learning German through the medium of English is the German Grammer method Gaspey-Otto Saner (Publishing house: Groos in Heidelberg, price about 6 Sh.)
An excellent firm for printing art pictures is the SCARABACUS VERLAG in Berlin. 61 Luetzow Strasse. This will furnish you everything you want, and at moderate prices. I have told the proprietor to send you specimens. The firm is already interested in Jainism because it prints the photographs and coloured pictures, I have collected for my book on the Jaina religion.