In Solan, I met Trivediji finally – many years since I have been in touch over phone and now a first visit to his residence to dig out old publications of Shri Svadhyaya the Magazine Swami Amrit Vagbhav was very closely associated with.

Trivediji’s Father Hardev Sharma Trivedi was closely associated with Swamijis Career in Solan, HP and he was also the editor of Shri Svadhyaya. Later Shri Svadhyaya became Jyotishmati – completely dedicated to Jyotish and continues to be published by Trivedijis Family including young Rohitashva who surprisingly entered a Field most modern youth are averse to.

Even though I found only 2 Copies of Shri Svadhyaya viewable here:
https://archive.org/details/SriSvadhyayaYear13VE2010SharadaIssueCollectionOfJyotishmatiNiketanSolan

https://archive.org/details/SriSvadhyayaYear10VE2008SharadaIssueCollectionOfJyotishmatiNiketanSolan

and another a retro Evaluation of the  magazine’s past predictions

https://archive.org/details/SriSvadhyayaPredictionsCollectionOfJyotishmatiNiketanSolan

many other Interesting and rare Texts also showed up.

Two 19th Century Texts and One 1933 Work on Indian Astronomy I photographed on the Spot:

https://archive.org/details/HanumannamaNatakBhashaOrShrivarVilas1884CollectionOfJyotishmatiNiketanSolan

https://archive.org/details/GitaGovindAndRadhaVinodKavyaWithTika1882CollectionOfJyotishmatiNiketanSolan

https://archive.org/details/GanakTaranginiOfSudhakarDwivedi1933CollectionOfJyotishmatiNiketanSolan

Images of Select Texts and Shelves can be seen below:

https://www.facebook.com/1537616383159118/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1938318663088886

Noteworthy were

the Illustrated Lahore Hindi Mahabharat in Several Volumes:

A Stack full of Chandi Magazines

Trivedi Family has most generously invited me to send a team there for Digitizing all Rare Books – I do feel motivated and in future I will definitely go for it.

The one thing that I missed was a survey of the Local Library which had received a huge portion of  Baghat Maharaja’s (Swamiji’s Patron) Collection – as it was closed due to Guru-Purab.