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driver of his boss in Bombay who used to knock him with his palm thrice or four times in the morning and evening, Kartik further revealed that Natvarlal (who lived in Bornbay for about 35 to 40 years and served as cook of actors and actresses) is happy in the above world of spirits and still wishes to help people as much as possible all this tallied with the information which Mangaji had about his brother Some time in the first week of March, 1998 · Dr D. G Vedia, Professor of Sanskrit, Uttar Gujarat University, Patan about 3 PM Dr Vedia gave Kartik a photograph of Kusum, the deceased wife of his son Nikhil Kartik revealed that she was living in spirit world with some lady relatives whose name began with R, and was happy that they should not worry about her, and that
Kusum had no objection of Nikhil married again 7 On 10th March, 1998. Premila Mukundbhat Kansara, 9.45, A M.
All the three of us, i e, Premila (my wife's sister), Niranjana (my wife) and myself (N M Kansara) went to see Kartık. We handed over to him a photograph of Jijna, the deceased young daughter of Premila Kartık attuned himself with her spirit and revealed that she mentioned the names of Pareshbhai, Jyotiben, Lataben, Vidyaben, whom Premila did not know But when the names of Babulal (Premila's brother), Pravinbhai (their neighbour), Ronak (the brother of Jigna's husband's elder brother's wife), Pradyumnabhai (another neighbour or acquaintance at whose house Jijna used to go for seeing or enjoying TV programmes), Zarina, Mayaben, Rama, Rashmi etc, these tallied with the living or dead friends of Jijna On 13th March, 1998. Prof. Kapadia, Prof. Kanjibhai Patel, Dr Jitubhai Shah and Prof. Kansara about 17 P. M. All the four of us went to meet Kartika, and we found him sitting in the chamber of the museum curator Shri Lalitkumar in the L D Musium We presented to Kartika a typed and bound volume of the doctoral dissertation of Prof Vasantbhai Parikh of Amreli About hundred and eleven pages in the beginning and about ten pages at the end were torn out and removed from it We requested Kartık to identify and locate the person with whom this disjoined material of about 21 pages was lying He said the material was in Patan and some scholar, whose name began with M had taken it, it was likely to be sold to some Germans When we further requested him to try to locate if there was a copy of the thesis in Ahmedabad, after some effort he located it in the Gujarat University And, both Dr Jitubhai and myself (Kansara) had actually gone to the Gujarat University Liberary and located and seen a copy of it on the previous day to verify as to how many pages and containing what matter were missing 1 This was our attempt to test Kartika in slightly different field of retrieving lost things II (Prof Ujamshi Kapadia is co-ordinator, Prof Kanjibhai is the Administrator and Dr Jitendra B Shah is the Director of the L D Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad)
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