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PREFACE.
My thanks are also due to Rai Sarat Chandra Das, Bahadur, C.I.E., at whose instance I undertook this work, and who, at the suggestion of the Government of Bengal, forwarded its advance proof to the International Congress of Orientalists held at Copenhagen in August 1908. It was kindly accepted by that learned body as a contribution on the Jaina philosophical literature.
SATIS CHANDRA VIDYABHUSANA.
PRESIDENCY COLLEGE,
CALCUTTA : February, 1909.