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PREFATORY NOTE rationality and consistency of principle, ethical outlook, and ascetic practice. In the present period of transition such traits are a strong equipment: the qualities of representative leaders such as Vijaya Dharma Sūri will contribute to a further expansion of the community.
The author has not laboured to include every interesting particular in the life of the teacher-it was not his purpose to do so. A reader anxious to learn more may find something to his purpose in the accounts mentioned at the end of Chapter II and also in the late Dr. L. P. Tessitori's Vijaya Dharma Suri: A Jain Achārya of the Present Day (Calcutta, 1917).
F. W. THOMAS.
April, 1921.
