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Nyāyatirtha Nyâyavishārada Muni Shri , Nyāyavijayaji Maharaja, who has sung this Adhyātmatattvāloka, and who has written many' other books, is a pious Jaina Nork of erudite scholarship. I have had the good fortune of coming in contact with this great soul and all the while I have been impressed with his brilliant genius and nobleness of irind. He has sacrificed the pleasures of his life for the sacred cause of Religion-Religion not in its narrow compass, bút ir 3 widest extent, and in its true essence. His religious views are' very liberal, and far from being sectarian and hence appeal to the hearts of people, belonging to different sects. He discards all the parapherna. lia of Religion, and interprets it as ono that links together by an immortal chain, the hearts of people at large. Ho has resorted to this saintly life, it seems, as a consequence of some inward. callof heart' incapable of