________________ 14 who take pleasure in emphasing insistently and aggressively their differences from other sectarians, and feed their own egolsm under cover of devout orthodoxy. Dr. B.C. Law It was in 1921 when I met the learned Jain Shital Prasadji who was kind enough to pay me a visit at my cottage. He was so simple in his habit and so amiable in his disposition. He was so well posted in Jainism and especially Jain Philosophy. He always took a comparative view of the subject in which he was interested. He was successful in explaining many knotty points of Jain-ism with special reference to Buddhism. He was reasonable in his estimation of the value of the subject of his choice. Undoubtedly he had many rare qualities in him which made him a great Jain and a devout Brahamachari. Dr: Hafiz Saiyyad It was in 1938 when I met Br. Shital Prasad first, at the All-faiths conference in Indore where he made several speeches which made deep impressions on my mind. His clear exposition of Jain Philosophy, his admirable command over the intricaties of Jain logic, his ideal life as a devoted Jain scholar, are things which we can never forget. He was one of those few Jaina scholars in India who entered into the spirit of Jaina system of thought and lived it in everyday life. Jaina philosophy is so deep, so subtle. so analytic that our ordinary untrained mind cannot easily grasp it. Swami Shital Prasadji did his level best to popularise it. He imbibed in him the true missionary spirit. He would spare no time and no pains in expounding and in inculcating it to any speeker of truth whom he happened to know. He would spend hours together in bringing home to a doubting mind the logicality and soundness of his point of view if he was convinced that his hearer was a genuine lover of divine wisdom. I had the good
