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Babu Deo Kumar Ji Jain
stuck to that post for many years. But in the midst of all these tiring occupations he always found time to study religious books and hold religious discourses with scholars.
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In the year 1900 his younger brother Babu Dharam Kumarji, died of plague at Parasnath Hills where he was on pilgrimage. He was married only a few months before in Mathura. He was a very brilliant student reading in B. A. Babu Deokumarji was very much shocked but he bore it peacefully and at once felt his duty towards his brother's wife Pandita Chanda Baiji Jain who was only fourteen years old at that time. He appointed big scholars of Jainism so that her tender mind might become religious. He also appointed learned teachers to teach her English, Hindi and other subjects. Besides this, he himself taught her from time to time. As a result of all these she is now a living monument to Babu Deokumarji's spirit of renunciation and zeal for service to Society. It is she who founded the Jaina Bala Vishram at Arrah in 1921 and has been conducting it with great success. She also edits the Jain Mahiladarsh and the Akhil Bhartiya Jain Mahila Parishad.
Babu Deokumarji had a very fine grasp of the Jain Philosophy and he realised the the potentialities of the tolerant preachings of "Syadbad" philosophy, so much needed in the Indian Society, torn with religious strife and dissensions. So on the 12th of June 1905 he established a "Syadbad Pathshala" in Benares which in a few years grew to "Mahavidyalaya" and made a gift of the "Dharamashala" made by his grandfather for housing it.
Now he rivetted his attention towards South India which is a veritable arsenal of religious faiths. He knew there was a mine of Jain Literature lying in oblivion unexploited by scholars, So in the year 1907 he started for a pilgimage in the South India with his whole family. He also took with him chosen lecturers and musicians. He visited almost each and every place of pilgrimage and was filled with a sense of pride at the immensity of Jain Literature and things of Jain art and culture like the 56 feet high and 1200
1. This is an important branch of Jain Philosophy, which holds that every thing can be viewed in more than one aspect, So what is real in one sense can be unreal in another,
