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Pt. Jagdish Lal Shastri Assistant Director, Publications Department, and Pt. Raghu Nath Sahai Shastri, Manager deserve thanks for the help they gave me in their own way. Pt. Satya Narayan Pathak Acharya Vishvabandhu, Pt. Bhagavad Datt, Tyagmurti Gosvami Ganesh Datta and Pt. Murali Dhar Jyotishacarya are to be thanked for occasional suggestions given by them.
I must thank Mr. S. S. Saith and Pt. Bala Sahai Shastri of the Panjab University Library for the facilities they afforded me in consulting MSS and books in their charge.
Dr. P.K. Gode of the Bhandarkar Research Institute Poona : the Director Gaek wad Institute Baroda ; Shriyut Agar Chand Nahta of Bikaner and Shriyut Jugal Kishor Mukhtar of the Vir Sewa Mandır Sarsawa (Saharanpur) deserve my thanks for the loin of MSS, and for furnishing copies of passages and references from other works.
M/s. Ram Lal Kapur and sons put me under obligation by supplying paper at control rate.
Last but not the least, I am indebted to Mahant Girdhan Das, Rai Bahadur Jankı Das Kapur, Proprietor Janki Das & Co. L. Bishan Das Kapur, 23 B Model Town, Lahore and Gos. Ishwar Das for financial help given ky them to meet the cost ot publication ot the TP.
BHRIGU ASHRAM. 52 C Model Town Lahore. Busant Panchmi Sam, 2002
R. S. SHARMA.
ADDITIONAL NOTES. p. 9 $ 1. See H. D. Velankar: Jinaratnakosa s. 1. (1) ANTTU 97.791 where two different works of the same name are inentioned.
9 $ 3. This account is based on "Jaina Cosmology" an aprendix in Dr. Banarsi Das's Jaina Jatakas, Lahore, 1924.
983. The heavenly bodies (planets and stars) are included in the middle region. The Vaimenika gods of the upper region are different from the Jyotishka gods.
10 $ . For Pauranic descriptions of the hells see:
