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I also express my thankfulness to my close ones. Dr. Jayanti Lal Jain (Mangalayatan University), Dr. Veer Sagar Jain (Delhi), Dr. Jinendra Kumar Jain (Udaipur), Dr. S. L. Godawat (Udaipur), Shri Vimalji Jain (Udaipur), Mrs. Sheetal Vijen Shah (London), Shri I.S. Jain (Mumbai) and my family members (Manak Lal, Mahesh Kumarji, Nirmal Kumar, Kavita, Vishal, and Prateek) have been nice enough to go through the manuscript during different phases of its development and have provided encouragement and feedback that helped me a lot. My wife, Mrs. Pushpa Agrawal, encouraged and supported me in various ways. She took interest in discussing many stanzas with me, and she read a large number of pages of the manuscript. Her feedback specially helped me in making the language simpler.
While expressing my thankfulness, I cannot forget the names of Dr AjitKumar Singhji Kasliwal, his father (late) Shri DevKumar Singhji Kasliwal and Kundakunda Jñānapīṭha (Indore) who have been instrumental in encouraging me to learn and spread the tenets of Jain philosophy in the past 30 years. I am also thankful to Kundakunda Jñānapīṭha (Indore) as well as its Executive Director, Dr. Anupam Jain, and his associates for the publication of this work. At this point, I am also happy to express my admiration for Shri Sanajayji Kothari and his team including Shri Dinesh Prajapat for printing this work in very efficient way.
Udaipur September 5, 2018
Paras Mal Agrawal
11 Bherava Dham Colony, Hiran Magri Sector 3, UDAIPUR (Rajasthan) INDIA parasagrawal@hotmail.com
