Tattvarthadhigamsutram Part 1

Author(s): Umaswati, Umaswami, Hiralal R Kapadia
Publisher: Jivanchandra Sakarchandra

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prepared for us. It seems he has intermixed therein at times different readings and a few words added as a matter of explanation. We were late in respectfully drawing the attention of Upadhyāyaji to have given these separately. Nevertheless, we fully appreciate his zeal for making this work intelligible even to the laymen.
It may perhaps not be out of place to give in short a history of the fund that has led to the publication of the Series. The late Sheth Devchand Lalbhai Javeri, in whose memory this fund has been inaugurated, left by his will a sum of Rs. 45,000 along with other sums to be spent in various other matters, to be devoted to some benevolent purposes. This amount was further enhanced by a sum of Rs. 25,000 set apart by Mr. Gulabchand Devchand to be spent in some good purpose in the memory of the said Sheth Devchand Lalbhai. It was at the advice of Punnyāsa Sri Anandasâ gara (Āgamoddhāraka Jaināchārya Anandasāgarasūri) that these sums which made the original funds in Trust, were amalgamated, and the present Trust was inaugurated. At present the funds of this Trust amount to about Rs. 100,000, the original being further enhanced by the property of Bai Vijkore the deceased daughter of the said Sheth Devchand Lalbhai which was directed to be made over to this Trust by her. Recently a sum of Rs. 2,000 has been added to this fund as suggested in his will by the late Sheth Naginbhai Ghelabhai, the nephew of the late Sheth Devchand Lalbhai and the managing trustee of this fund, who died at an early age of 45. The object of this Trust is to devote the interest on the funds for the preservation and the development of "the Jaina Svetāmbara Mūrti-Pūjaka Religious Literature."
The first 56 volumes of this Series were issued during the period when Sheth Naginbhai was alive. But, after his premature death in Bombay on the 20th of November 1921 (the Kartaka month of the Vikrama era 1978) the responsibility of publication has fallen on us. This is the 'Sixty-seventh Volume' of the Series that is being published by this Trust.
Bombay, JAVERI BAZAR, 1 st August 1926.
TIVANCHAND SAKERCHAND JAVERI,
A Trustee, for himself and Co-Trustees.