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has been inaugurated, left by his will a sum of Rs. 45,000 along with other sums to be spent in various other matters, to be devoted to some benevolent purpose. This amount was further enhanced by a sum of Rs. 25,000 set apart by Gulabchand Devchand Esq., to be spent in some good purpose in the memory of the said Sheth Devchand Lalbhai. It was at the advice of Pannias Shree Anand Sagar Gani that these sums which made the original funds in Trust, were amalgamated, and the present Trust was inaugurated. At present the funds of this Trust amount to about Rs. 100,000 the original being further enhanced by the property of "Bai Vijkore" the deceased daugther of the said Sheth Devchand Lalbhai, which was directed to be made over to this Trust by her. The object of this Trust is to devote the interest of the funds for the preservation and the development of "the Jain Shwetamber religious literature."
This work was composed in the year 1055 of the Mahåveera Era and the year 585 of the Vikrama Era. The author of this small work, which consists of 700 verses, was the great impartial preceptor, Shrimad Haribhadra Acharya who has set up his ideal as follows:
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mata , a felfey; युक्तिमद्वचनं यस्य, तस्य कार्यः परिग्रहः."
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