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The Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology at Ahmedabad, with its prestigious L.D. Series (comparable in quality and quantity to the famous Gackwad's Series, the Harvad Oriental Series and the Singhi Jain Scrics of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan) can le said to be entirely Malvania's creations So also the Prakrit Text-Society Series with its numerous publications of important Jain texts. He has also played a key role in the development of the Parshvanath Research Institute of the Banaras Hindu University, which has, among other things, brought out a comprehensive history of Jain literature.
The vigorous tradition of sound Indological scholarship in the area of Jainology and Prakrit studies, which Pandit Malvania has represented so brilliantly is also rapidly coming to a sad end. But Malvania with the wisdom earned during six decades of unflineing devotion to learning would hopefully observe that in view of several sincere and serious students and scholars of Jainology from Japan, France, Germany, United States etc., who sought his guidance and were benefited by his scholarship, the light of learning would keep shining, if not here, at least abroad.
-H. C. Bhayani
