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? XXVIII all rights and privileges which so long belonged exclusively to them. Our Dizumbari brethren are squandering away good money in the nime of religion. They are showing a great enthusiasm, at the present moment, to set up claiins and run to the Courts of Law for ille setilement of issues. Every where, wheiher at Sametsikhar, it Pawapuri or at Rajgir, we hear vi litigations cropping up from their endeavours to get equal rights in the control and management of the sacred places which the Jain Swetambari Community have been doing since the foundation of these shrines and temples. If things really go on in this way, thea the Jain Community, as a whole, will have not only to pay dearly for it; but those made mental works as well of the Jain genius in art, architecture and sculpture will shortly disappear into the surrounding ruins. And it grieves lis inuch therefore to and that the Digambaris are quarrelling with the Swetambaris without any just cause to advocate in claiming equal share with them. In the South, the Diyaınbaris have their wellknown images at Srivana Belgola and other temples in their sole management. No
