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________________ 1906. THE JAINA GAZETTE. 13 The local committee has however done ove .very valuable service for which they deserve to be thanked and congratulated. They went from door to door in the city, asking for money for the Mahavidyala and elicited promises of money for about Rs. 40,000 from three quarters of the city. Happily the fourth part boasts of the wealthiest section of the community among its inhabitants and the total from Saharanpur city alone may reach over 60,000. Then they propose to go out in the district and a rough estimate of a subscription of a lac of rupees is formed from this district including the city of course. This is very encouraging and laudable. If other districts follow the same example, the proposed Jain College would surely not fail for want of funds. But I may here mention that this liberality is due much to the impression that the school which will in due course be raised to the status of a college will never be removed from Saharanpur. Whether the same generous spirit will prevail even when they know, that the locality of the college is still unsettled, no one can say. I would that it may. As I have indirectly shown above that the nature and centre of the college is yet open to discussion I would like to make a few suggestions with regard to the same before I conclude this letter. First as to its nature. That necessity is the mother of invention is a well-known saying, now the Juius must bave felt some necessity of opening a college. Let us now examine what was that necessity. There are al. ready many colleges in existence, both Government and private, cheap and costly. Although Educational institutions can never be too many yet the number of Arts Colleges in India is reasonably sufficient. What need there is then to establish a Central College in one place at a cost of lacs of rupees ! I think it is this that in these colleges only University education is imparted or in the case of denominational colleges such religious education also, as pertains to the sect to which they belong. Thus there are no present arrangements for Jaina religious education along with English education. In order to supply this want they propose to establish a Central College of their own. But the thing to be seen is whether all the money which will be spent on the English side of the college, bearing in mind that it will be proportionately much greater than that which will be spent on the Sanskrit side, cannot be used to better advantage. The ordinary Jaina public does not know much about these things, and when an appeal for funds is made to them by the edu_cated publio, they respond to it on the conviction that their money
| SR No. | 542480 |
| Book Title | Jain Gazette 1906 04 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Jagmanderlal Jaini, Sumerchand Jaini |
| Publisher | Jaina Gazette Office |
| Publication Year | 1906 |
| Total Pages | 22 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Jain Gazette, & India |
| File Size | 6 MB |