Glimpses of Jainism and Biography of forgotten Hero Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

SR No.: 006757
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Pannalal R Shah, Gunvant Barvalia, Kurangi Desai
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 2003
Total Pages: 112
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 5 MB

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Nathu went to the Broadway Central Hotel. We told the manager we were in New York for two days and would be obliged if he could give us a room. He alloted a separate room for us. After putting our luggage in our room we went to the market and bought apples, bananas, grapes, oranges, guavas and other fruits. On returning to the hotel we completed our fruit-dinner before 5 p.m. and then I went to the Brunswick Hotel to see Mr. Pipe. We talked a lot about the Parliament. Reporters to a few newspapers were also there. They asked me some questions about the Jain community and the Jain religion. This is what a well-known New York paper. 'The World' says about me:
'Mr. Virchand R. Gandhi said he believed he was the first member of the Jain Society that had been allowed to visit outside of India within two thousand years. 'It is a tenet of our order', he continued, 'that should a member break bread with Englishmen, he shall be excommunicated. The high priest and a gathering of the society selected me as a delegate to the religious congress at Chicago. Other meetings denounced me for coming here. I am here and glad to be here'. Gandhi is prohibited from touching meat of any kind. He does not know the taste of flesh. he is an exceedingly intelligent man and stands high in his order.
The next day was Sunday and we had not anything in particular to do, so we went out sight-seeing.
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