Jaina Gazette 1928

SR No.: 034890
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ajitprasad, C S Mallinath
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office
Publication Year: 1928
Total Pages: 502
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 33 MB

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NOTES AND NEWS
155 ill-assorted marriages, marriages by purchase or exchange, Devadasis, child widows, and an uneducated motherhood.
Please think for a few moments. There is no society in the world where the status of women is so inferior, and consequently there is no country where infant mortality is so fearfully high. Such a state of things should make us ponder seriously.
Now, this is a question which concerns men and women alike. We therefore ask every thoughtful woman, and every man who cares for truth and justice, to reflect on this question. There are other big questions for Hindu Sabhas and Conferences but attention to this great question of questions will remove real grievances which hinder our advancement. To work for this cause is to work for the very salvation of our society.
BHAGAT RAM, Jio Daya Parcharak, Ferozepore Cantt.
NOTES AND NEWS.
An Example for the Jains. TVE are glad to learn that Sir Annamalai Chettiar has made
W an unprecedented gift of 20 lakhs of Rupees to establish an University which is to be named after himself. Besides, Sri Meenakshi College and its other auxiliary institutious which are veritable monuments of his generosity worth about 17 lakhs are to constitute the nucleus of the University. We heartily congratulate the philanthopic knight for his munificent and well directed gift of 37 lakhs in the cause of Vidya.
We commend this noble example to our rich Seths, Bankers, Zamindars and Merchant Princes. How often we have reiterated the need of a central Jaina College to form the nucleus of a Jaina University must be too well-known to the readers of the Jaina Gazette. The Jains, from time immemorial, have been the pioneers in Indian Culture and thought as is very amply evidenced by the celebrated Masterpieces in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati etc., which are still extant to-day, not to speak of the several great works which have been Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat