Haim Saraswat Satra

SR No.: 005027
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mumbai
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 2004
Total Pages: 366
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Book_Gujarati
File Size: 17 MB

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શ્રી. હૈમ સારસ્વત સત્ર: અહેવાલ
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to the State, the committee recommended that the rich amongst the Jain inhabitants of the Patan should be persuaded to raise a subscription amongst themselves in order that all the existing Mss, can be safely kept in an ant-proof building. The Baroda Government took steps without delay to act upon the recommendations of the committee. As a result thereof a spacious, beautiful and imposing structure standing on a plinth more than 10 feet above the level of the adjoining ground and containing three scientifically constructed ant-proof rooms with steel-doors like those of safes was erected on a piece of land close on the east to the compound of the famous Pancasara temple which is traditionally believed to enshrine the idol of the first Tirthankar Parshvanatha which Vanaraj Chavada, who founded Anahilpur Patan, is reputed to have brought with himself from Pancasara in Kathiawar.
The completion of this temple of knowledge which by a strange coincidence of identity of names serves to commemorate not only the name of Sheth Hemachand MOHANLAL who has borne the major portion of the financial burden involved in getting it erected but also that of the Saint Hemacandra, the literary adviser of the Solanki King Siddharaj Jayasinh and the saviour and spiritual preceptor of his nephew Kumarapala, who is believed to have kindled in the heart of Siddharaj a desire to emulate the famous Vikramaditya of Ujjain and Bhojaraj of Dhar in the matter of extending state patronage