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in the form of stories. With a view to fill up this need of the hour reverend Gurudev Rajasthan Kesari, the Spiritual Yogi and Upadhyay : Shree Pushkar Muniji Maharaj are trying hard in this direction. Reverend Gurudeyshree has written hundreds of stories pertaining to Jainism on the strength of his vast studies and contemplation. These stories are useful in judging that most ancient culture, civilization and human nature.
In these writings, evaluation and study of hundreds of published or unpublished manuscripts-books of Sanskrit-Prakrit-Apabhransh Guiarati and Rajasthani languages have been done. From amongst those, thousands of stories have been compiled after deep study of historical, religious, pauranic, folk-stories etc. etc. Even today, under the able guidance of Gurudevshree our efforts are going on and it is our strong determination and will to present in a book form the complete vast Jain story-literature.
It is our great fortune that we have been entrusted with the responsibility of editing that vast prose and poetrical story-literature written by Reverend Gurudev. It is left only to learned readers to judge how far we have been successful in the attempt.
Shree Devendra Muni
