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Translator's Preface
I owe great thanks to Professor (F.W.] Thomas for having helped me with the English idiom of the translation. When some years ago I acccepted Prof. Thomas's invitation to translate the Pravachanasara and Tattvadipika [commentary of Amrtachandra thereon) for the Jain Literature Society, I was not sufficiently aware of the difficulties which the commentary, with its intricate syntax, would give me.
I am deeply grateful to Prof Thomas for undertaking to write the introduction. .. at a time when an indisposition due to a constitutional nervous disease hindered me from doing it myself.
Despite such personal drawbacks during these last years I have realized the joy of a deeper and better understanding of the Jain religion.
Amsterdam 1934
B. Faddegon
