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chand Lalbhái, wbich was directed to be made over to this trust by her. The object of this Trust is to devote the interest of the funds for the preservation and the development of “The Jain Swetamber religious literature."
The trustees are now in a position to bring out the present « volume as the first" of the series to be published from time to time by this Trust. The author of this treatise is the well known Kalikāl Sarvagna Hemchandráchārya, who hardly needs any introduction to Sanskrit students. What an eminent place, the said author occupies among Sanskrit writers, it is unnecessary to say. But this much one can say that he has written on various subjects, in all of which his knowledge seems to be suprime. At the request of Shri Kumarpál, a king of Gujrat who was considering Hemchandracharya as his sprititual preceptor, the author of this book wrote thirty two cantos, out of which twenty are comprised in this volume and the remaining twelve in “ Yoga Shastra ". Further, upon this book, Prabhānanda Suri, a disciple of Abhayadev Suri and a disciple ( whose name can not be traced out) of Vishālraj Suri, have written commentaries severally. Both of these commentaries bave been included in this volume,
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