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I am grateful to the Prākṣit Bhārati Academy, Jaipur, for getting this book to see the light of the day. The Praksit Bhārati Academy has published this book. I am specially grateful to Sri. D.R. Mehta and Sri. Vinayasagarji for giving me all encouragement in this work. I am also grateful to Sri. N. Vasupal, M.A., Ph.D, Lecturer, Department of Jainology, University of Madras, for going through the proofs. I thank Selvi G. Shyama, Stenotypist in the Department of Jainology, University of Madras, for assisting me in getting some pages typed. I thank the Research Foundation for Jainology in Madras and its organisers Sri. S. Sripal, I.P.S., Inspector General of prisons, Tamil Nadu, Sri. Surendrabhai Mehta and Sri. S. Krishnachand Chordia for their constant encouragement in getting this work completed in time. I am grateful to Sri. S. Sripal, I.P.S., for writing the foreword to the book.
I am grateful to my wife Smt. Laxmidevi Kaighatgi for giving me encouragement and inspiration for writing this book. She has been giving suggestion off and on and the work in this form is due to her,
I am extremely grateful to Sri P. H. Viswanathan, Manager, Balussery Printing Press and the workers of Balussery Printing Press, Madras for completing the work in a very short span of time.
T. G. KALGHATGI
Madras, Mahāvira Jayanti 31st March 1988.
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