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I was extremely sorry to hear of His Holiness's (your venerable Guruji) illness and hope that, by this time, his previous health will be fully restored. Please give him the expression of my deepest sorrow for his illness and my hear. tiest wishes for the restoration of his health. You will now have received the document in which he is nominated Honorary Member of the German Oriental Society. This nomination is the highest honours we were able to confer on him and is, I think, more effective than the publication of his biography would have been in this country. In the mental state in which our public is ncw, nobody would have read such a biography, where as the scholars know it from the 'Journal Aniatique' and the Indian publications of it. The Honorary Membership, generally, is given only at a much higher age than that of your Guruji. Hence you see how greatly we (the four presidents of the German Oriental Society) value your Guruji's scientific and other work, and how grateful we are for his helping us in this terrible time, in which our money has no value and, consequently we are not able to buy Indian books, by sending us so many books and manuscripts. This Honorary Membership, of course, will be equally an honour for you and your fellow monks, who continue to do so excellent work in promoting knowledg about your religion and literature, and who are really not only reviving, but creating Jain studies, I most heartily congratulate you on this nomination.
The £. 75 of Mr. Sarabhai Mody have been duly received; I most heartily thank you for your kindness. This sum is equal, now, in Germany to 17000 Marks and much more than half the payment I am annualy receiving for my works at the University. I deposited this sum at a Banker's, and have the intention of publishing by means of it some of my treatises on Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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