Publisher’s note (volume 4)

Professor K. C. Lalwani who died in Calcutta on December 10, 1983 was born in 1921 at Rajshahi (now in Bangladesh) and took his Master’s Degree with a First Class from the University of Calcutta in 1943. He taught Economics and Commerce at Calcutta, Poona and Delhi, before joining the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur in West Bengal from where he retired in June 1982. He had published many books and innumerable papers in Economics, Commerce, Political Science, Religion, Historiography, Educational Sociology and Contemporary United States. In 1960-61, he went to the United States on a one-year assignment when he addressed seminars at several Universities and attended and participated in professional gatherings. He travelled widely in the United States and six countries of western Europe. Around 1967, he entered into another new field of Jainology, wherein he had published several volumes. His work on the Bhagavatī Sūtra, which he could not complete, had been hailed by Prof. Suniti Kumar Chatterjee as his magnum opus. His treatise on the life and doctrines of Mahāvīra had been reviewed in the United States as best work on the subject. His lucid exposition of Jaina Stories had proved popular with the English-reading public, His translation of Uttarādhyayana Sūtra in verse form has been acclaimed widely.

With heavy heart, we are publishing Bhagavatī Sūtra Vol IV (Sataks [Śatakas] 9-11) as far as he could translate of this great work before his death. His untimely death was an irreparable loss to the academic world at large, specially so to the Jinistic Studies.