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1914.1 JAINA GAZETTE.
195 by substantial contributions to this socio-religious institution. We are glad to announce the following donations :
The Hon'ble Rai Bahadur Lala Sultan Singh, Delhi ... Rs. 1,000 Rai Babadur Seth Kalyan Mal of Indore
, 1,001 His wife
251 Rai Bahadur Lala Ghamandi Lal, Mazaffarnagar
251 Rai Sahib Lala Ishri Pershad, Treasurer, Delhi
250 Lala Peyare Lal, Pleader, Delhi
250 Lala Jamboo Petshad, Rais, Saharanpur
250 Lala Hoolash Rai, Saharanpar
125 Lala Wazir Chand, Pleader, Delhi
101 Rai Sahib Lala Moti Sagar, Pleader, Delhi
100 --Lala Amir Singh Sahib Jain of Messrs. Johri Mal Sanehi Lal, Delhi
... ..., 100 Lala Ajit Prasada, Government Pleader, Lucknow
100 Lala Sheodat Rai Ram Kumarji, Delhi
51 Lala Debi Sabai, Banker, Ferozepur
100
Elsewhere we publish the excellent verses composed by Lala Jineshwar Das, Mayal, of Delbi, which were recited by him on the occasion of the Kashi Syadvad Mahotsava in December last. The gifted poet has in a masterly style narrated the first 2 of the 5 auspicious incidents in the life of Lord Rishabha the First Tirthankara. The language is simply grand and the feeling of devotion incomparable.
The report of the Jaina Literature Society for 1913, published elsewhere, shows slow but steady progress. We are anxiously awaiting for Brother Jaini's “ Outlines of Jainism," and for the English translation of the Syadvada Manjari, a standard work of Jain logic.
The report of the Jain Students’ Brotherhood, published elsewere, shows a line of good useful work. We shall be glad to hear of its further progress.
JAIN STUDIES A "DESIDERATUM.” A paper by Dr. F. W. Thomas, read at the Jain Literary
Conference, Jodhpur. One is naturally reluctant to write upon a subject in the study of which one is not very proficient. But the kind inviShree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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