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Jain Gazette.
I think I have shown what absurd conclusion we arrive at by taking the jaol-figures as they are now published. The reasons for the separation of Jains from Budhists in the reports of Jaol Adminstration are not, however, merely sentimental. These figures are calculated to show what the moral fibre of the several communities is and this is certainly to give the leaders of those communities a basis on which they should proceed to improve it. The Budhist and Jain communities are entirely different and it is necessary for the leaders of both the communities that they should know accurately the moral condition of the men whose ideas and conduct they can influence.
The smallness of the Jain population cannot properly be urged as a reason for the inclusion of them under the Budhists. When the question involved is the moral state of a society, such considerations of convenience are not to be counted as anything. I feel sure that the Government of India is not guided by such a paltry motive as that of convenience when such a gross injustice ase complain of is concerned. The Parsis, whose total number is less than a lac of souls, get an independent place in the said tables and I do not know why the Jains, who number nearly fourteen lacs, should be grudged a place in them only to avoid a little more inconvenience.
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I hope Jain public bodies everywhere will move to call the attention of the Government to this question.
Hirachand Nemchand
A GREAT LIFE.
Nothing so effectively evokes the innate but dormant virtues of men as the contact of heroic lives. This is the principle of worship as enunciated by our religion. We are told to study the lives of
