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નગશેઠ શાંતિદાસ ઝવેરી ૨૪. આનું મૂળ અંગ્રેજી લખાણું આ પ્રમાણે છે –
“ The career of Shantidas is also interesting for the fact that he was the first Nagarsheth of Ahmedabad by popular voice, and that this title, with its attached status and conventional functions was handed down in his family.” ( HOG', Vol. II, p. 140)
૫. આનું મૂળ અંગ્રેજી લખાણ આ પ્રમાણે છે –
“Jainism has produced in Gujarat in the course of centuries many distinguished religious guides and teachers whose names are held in high reverence by the community. But among its temporal magnates there is no name which can equal that of Shantidas Jawahari, who is said to have received, according to an old historical tradition, the title of Nagarsheth or
Lord Mayor' of Ahmedabad in the carly years of the seventeenth century. Without any connection with the official nobility of the Mughal Empire, Shantidas was able to exercise, by virtue of his business connections and his vast riches, an influence at the court of successive Mughal Emperors from the time of Jahangir to the accession of Aurangzeb which must have been envied by many an exalted amir or mansabdar of the Empire.” (SHG', p. 53)
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