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CONCLUSION -- AN IDEAL MONK Much is left untold, much is too briefly told, too poorly described, as the present is merely a feeble attempt at showing in outline only the life of the great Sage and the main features of his work. It was not proposed in these pages to describe and discuss the latter at anything like adequate length; for such a task must necessarily be left to much abler and better-equipped hands. All that was meant here was to present in a general way the eminent Monk and his great achievements, for the general reader's benefit. Enough has, however, been said to show that Vijaya Dharma Sūri, the great Āchārya, when he becomes better known, will most certainly be deemed entitled to a high place amongst the world's greatest thinkers, its reformers and its scholars. May these few pages help on a better understanding and a proper appreciation of the most noteworthy recluse, the eminent seer and the sage. For India, to its great misfortune, suffers to-day in the estimation of the world more through the latter's ignorance of the achievements of the heroes of Indian history than through the absence or the insignificance of such achievements.
