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श्रीमद् विजयराजेन्द्रसूरि - स्मारक य
Shri. Daulatsingh Lodha, "Arvind ", B. A. Editor, Shri Rājēndrasūri Smārak Grantha, House No. 11/55 - Bhilwara. Rājasthān.
(Mewar
Dear friend,
Very glad to get your letter dated 8th August 1955 and the enclosed pamphlets about the Smarak Grantha you are bringing out in honour of Shrimad Rājēndra Sūri of revered memory. For reasons of health I am unable to prepare any paper on the topics given by you in your pamphlet. I wish all success to the-proposed Smarak-Grantha in honour of such a great Jain Sadhu and a scholar of world fame. His Abhidhana Rajendra Kos'a on our shelves is a standing monument of his scholarship and dynamic literary activity.
With best wishes & kindest regards,
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona. 28th September 1955.
Yours sincerely, P. K. Goda.
Curator.
The Editor, Shrimad Rajendra Suri Smarak Grantha Bhilwara (Mewar, Rajasthan)
Dear Sir,
I am rather late to thank you for information regarding the Semicentenary Commemoration Volume for Shrimad Rājēndra Sūri together with a brief sketch of his life and a Special Request both which I have gone through with great interest. It is doubtful, as I am sorry to say, whether time with allow me to contribute to that proposed volume. But I wish to say emphatically that in the field of Jain researth no scholar can dispense of consulting the Suri's most valuable magnum opus, the Abhidhāna Rājëndra, as the big work was called very appropriately. Though thanks to research and editing work of 41/2, decades I am not unacquainted with Jain topics, I have never consulted that great Shvetambar Dictionary without a satisfying result. The Smarak
