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JAINA ANTIQUARY
" श्रीमत्वरमगम्भीरस्याद्वादामोघलाग्छनम् । जीयात् त्रैलोक्यनाथस्य शासनं जिनशासनम् ॥"
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Vol. XVII
No. 1
ARRAH (INDIA)
June 1951.
BABU DEO KUMARJI JAIN Sri, Birendra Kumar, Editor “Nagrik", Arrah,
By
The lives of great men of culture, learning and spiritual attain. ments are best studied as a whole but generally the closing periods of such lives are the most sublime, the quintessence of the whole life as they are.
This we find fully illustrated in the life of Danvir Babu Deo Kumar Jain, who has left a landmark in the cultural and educational advancements of the Jain community throughout India.
Before his death he remained confined to bed for three and half months. During this period not a day passed when he did not perform his strict religious duties regularly. Though the disease was a fatal one, he was quite unmindful of the consequences. There was no body to look after his family consisting of his wife and two young sons just within their teens but this fact did not produce any disturbing effect on his mind, resigned as he had everything of his in the hands of Providence. The only idea which occupied his mind was to die peacefully with the name of the Supreme Being on his lips. So in order to keep a spiritual atmosphere around him,
