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જૈનોની સંખ્યા ઘટવાના કેટલાક કારણે. મે. આત્માનંદ પ્રકાશના તંત્રી જોગ–
આપના તરફથી પ્રસિદ્ધ થતા માસીકમાં નીચેને પેરેગ્રાફ જે સરકાર તરફથી પ્રસિદ્ધ કરવામાં આવેલ વસ્તી પત્રકમાંથી ઉતારવામાં આવેલ છે કે મુંબઈ ઈલાકામાં જઈનેની વસ્તી તેમજ કેવી તેની સ્થિતિમાં સંખ્યામાં ઘટાડો થાય છે તે જઇન કોમને અભ્યદય ઈચ્છતા વર્ગને ઉપયેગી થવા સંભવ હોવાથી પ્રસિદ્ધ કરવા મહેર ભાની કરશે.
લી. સેવક
નરોતમ બી. શાહ. મુંબઇ તા–૨૯-૯-૧૩
Para 115-The third religion numerically in the Presidency is Jainism which claims nearly half a million worshippers. These are mostly found in Deccan & Gujarat, including the Native States of Cutch & Kattiawar, but a few, mostly village money-lenders, are scattered all over the Presidency. The followers of this religion showed a decrease in numbers of 20,000 in the decadel 891-1901, this falling off continued & eppraciably increased and they now nu. mber 44,000 less than in 1901. a decrement of 9 percent.
Plague will account for the greater part of the loss of 12.000 in the karnatak for 17 000 in the southern maratha country and for some of the deficiency in satara, but the decrement of 18,000 in Gujarati is hard toexplain. in the south of the presidency, the Jains, who are principally of the Chaturth caste, are cultivators, quite different from the shop-keeping class which predominates elsewhere, and have been hard hit by the plague, but there has been no calamity to account for the falling off in aumber in Gujarat. The Jain does not die during a famine; on the contrary, he grows fat. A reference to the 'ajputana & Central India Census figures showed that there could not have been any migration to speak of; indeed, the Rajputana figures also show a decrease. On enquiry with a leading Jain Merchant in Poona the only suggestion offered was that many people had died in Rajputana of a mysterious fever, the description of which seemed very like Poeumonic plague; but such an explanation would not solve the difficulty in this province and the only conclusion is that the Jains have been returning them
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| SR No. | 531123 |
| Book Title | Atmanand Prakash Pustak 011 Ank 03 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Jain Atmanand Sabha Bhavnagar |
| Publisher | Jain Atmanand Sabha Bhavnagar |
| Publication Year | 1913 |
| Total Pages | 28 |
| Language | Gujarati, Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Atmanand Prakash, & India |
| File Size | 2 MB |