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APPENDIX 4
Virchand Raghavji Gandhi, Esq., B.A,
Member of the Royal Asiatic Society, Secretary to the Jain Associations of India, President of the Hemchandra - acharya Study Class.
BOMBAY
Dear Sir,
We the members of the Mangrol Jain Sangit Mandali, are assembled here to-day to give expression in public to the high esteem and ardent admiration with which we all regard you for the incalculable benefits you have conferred upon our assembly by useful services and timely suggestions, as well as on the whole community, on religious matters and many more important and intricate questions connected with the affairs of our Sacred Places.
We avail ourselves of this occasion, especially because only to-morrow you will be on your way to that Land where you went in 1893, as an accredited Delegate of the Jain Community, to represent the views on the Ethics and Philosophy of our religion in the Parliament of Religions at Chicago. It was a matter of joy and satisfaction for us all that out of a few Indian Delegates of light and learning, who could compete with and hold their own against the foremost thinkers of Europe and America, you were the only person who was heard with rapt attention and accorded due praise.
Your real work may be said to have commenced with the termination of the sittings of that grand Assembly, for it was then that invitations from persons of diverse views and
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