On 10/6/05, Dmytro Ivakhnenko <nibbanka@...> wrote:
> Recently my friend has scanned the book "Vimuttimagga and
> Visuddhimagga: a Comparative study" written by
>
> Purushottam Vishvanath Bapat, M.A., A.M. Ph.D (Harvard), Retired
> Professor of Ancient Indian Culture, pali, and Buddhism, Poona
> University and Fergusson College, Poona,
[...]
> Since this book is hard to find even in libraries, I would like it to
> be available on the Web.
> However I would like to clarify copyright issues.
>
> Maybe you know or can find out the whereabouts of professor Bapat and
> copyrights on this book?
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