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11 3474: RE11
The Jain Swetauber Conference Kerald.
Vol. I
February, 1905.
No. II.
Jainism and His Highness the Gaekwar
of Baroda.
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A review of our several sacred places of pilgrimages, our divine shrines, our ancient Jain Libraries and a hundred other religious: institutions would at once convince us of the fact that our ancestors. spread far and wide over whole India, from the north to the south, from the east to the west, from the rich Gangetic delta to the arid and sandy deserts of Marwar and Jaisalmer. Nay, from ancient traces found by late Mr. Gandhi, it may safely be asserted that Jain. ism sometime found its way to America and the intermediate count. ries. And they did not migrate like swarms of locusts flying on no purpose and spreading havoc and devastation wherever they go, but they increased and multiplied with a settled purposem to earn honestly and to spend rightly. This well-earned money increased the more, the more it was spent on charitable and religious purposes. As an outcome of this benevolent practice you may at present see the beautifully carved and unparalelled temples at Delwara, the golden images said to weigh 1444 maunds at Achalgarh on Mount Abu, “costing many crores of rupees in their structure; the innumerable grand spiral temples, looking like so many angelic hives of the nine castle like Vasis of Sri Shatrunjaya Hills in Kathiawar whose cost cannot be estimated; the lofty superhuman temple of Ranekpur in Godwar which excels all earthly constructions and bewilders the gaze of the spectator making him think lowly and bumbly of himself howsoever great; tho surpassingly nice temple of Taranga in Gajrat; the sovoral temples of Samatsikhar in Hazaribugh
