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Japan Universities. He had impressive contacts with foreign Jainologists of those days like Herman Jacobi and Buhler etc.
Per chance, he was the first Jaina Missionary to travel abroad though V. R. Gandhi did it in 1893 and he had also a similar purpose in mind for Europe and USA continents. Brahmachariji has Asia first in his mind. He travelled to Burma and Srilanka in 1932-33 for promoting Jainism among Buddhist scholars there. He also encouraged barrister C. R. Jain, Dr. K. P. Jain and others to travel abroad for this purpose, which they have been undertaking since 1927. They established a Jaina Library in London and started supplying Jaina literature to public library in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Germany. The library in London worked for sometimes but soon it become defunct because of financial difficulties. Also, there is no supply of Jaina literature to German library. This author was instrumental in clearing the case of London Jain Library pending in the court of Bath there. There is no idea about the current state of affairs at Bad Godesberg where the Digambara community could not provide a bookshelf in 1962 for which K. P. Jain made heavy efforts.
During early thirties of this century, he had a large amount of correspondence from London and Osaka (Japan). He had the desire to travel to Europe and USA but that was not destined to be, as he could not find a companion to accompany him for flawless dieting and other routines. However, he could encourage others in this direction.
Promotion of Jainism was one of his missions. His other mission was to promote it inland. For this, he took travels to nearly all parts of the then India including the current M. P., U. P., Delhi, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, Orissa, Maharashtra, Bengal, Gujrat, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Western Pakistan and other areas during his rainy residences and post-rainy residences. He travelled from Attack to Cuttack and Kanyakumari to Kashmir. He was vociferous traveller and it was also his hobby like writing. That is why; he has been designated as Rail-embodied living being-seventh variety of living beings for the Jainas.
It must be said that his promotional endeavours could not continue with the same fervour after him and they seemed to have since discontinued. But these efforts started again after sixties when
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