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him a few bundles of straw covering them with a worn-out rug. In his student life he did not take more than Rupees 2 or 3 a month for his board. Such was his vow. From Mithila he came back to Benares, and here for some years he studied different branches of Sanskrit philosophy and literature for which he devoted all his time day and night, and thus acquired a comprehensive knowledge of Sanskrit literature as a whole, mastering most difficult works in it.
By religion he is a Jaina, and naturally he studied Jaina Sanskrit and Prakrit literatures embracing all their different branches. On Jainism there is none who can be considered his rival.
From Benares he came back to Gujarāt. But before coming there he had passed some time in Agra being engaged in editing, with Hindi translation and annotation as well as his own valuable introductions, some highly interesting religious and philosophical books, such as. Pancha-Pratikramaņa, the first four Karma-Granthas, Yogadarśana and Yogavimśika. In Gujarat, he was appointed a professor of Indian Philosophy in the Purātattvamandira of the Gujarat Vidyapitha or the National University established by Mahatma Gandhi. The specially notable work he was engaged in there was the edition of big work covering not less than 900 pages with various valuable and useful indices and appendices of Abhayadeva's commentary on the Sanmatitarka of Siddhasena Divākara, the first author of Logic in Jainism. Here it should be mentioned that Pandit Sukhlalji in this great work was assisted by Pandit Bechardās Doshi of Gujarāt, a renowned Sanskrit and Prakrit scholar and author. This work is in five volumes and not less than ten years he devoted in editing this. As already stated he is a blind man, and it is surprising to note that he undertook the work and finished it very creditably with his learned and precious notes showing his profound scholarship in every line. It will be interesting to
