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and chiefly thrive in an atmosphere of great ideas and historic associations. One of our anxious thoughts has been to try to supply this want and thus it is that we have got a room reserved for and sanctified by, daily prayers by the inmates of the Institution. On the walls, you see the image of the greatest Jaina of our times, the donor of this beautiful building, whose presence will for ever inspire into the hearts of our boys the truest feelings of benevolence, simplicity and selflessness. To this source of noble ideas, we are to-day adding another, equally powerful in calling forth some of the best emotions of human heart. We thus desire to adorn these walls by a small painting of our Maharajasaheb not only because he is the direct descendant of the most popular royal dynasty of the Deccan, not only because he is the beloved ruler of these territories, not even because he has encouraged the founders of this Institution in a hundred ways ever since its birth. All this has its own place in our hearts; but I must plainly tell you, Ladies and Gentlemen, that the greatest claim to our respect established by His Highness is founded not upon his beneficence to individual or a particular class or community, his greatest service to the public is far more substantial and deep-rooted than any of these aspects of his career.
The embodiment of a Principle. You will have to take full account of a great many things before you can realise what this claim of His Highness the Maharaja to our profound respect and admiration consists in. The most difficult question that an Indian statesman is confronted with to-day and has met for ages past and will meet for centuries to come is the adjustment of the claims of the numerous elements of Indian society to the satisfaction of all the interests concerned as well as to the safety of the larger interests of the body politic as a whole. That there are jarring and clashiny elements to be dealt with is, I believe, an accepted fact for all who consider the situation
| SR No. | 542510 |
| Book Title | Jain Gazette 1905 10 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Jain Student Institute Kolhapur |
| Publisher | Jain Student Institute Kolhapur |
| Publication Year | 1905 |
| Total Pages | 28 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Jain Gazette, & India |
| File Size | 5 MB |