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Late B. Devakumar Jain and his Jaina-Siddhanta-Bhavana
Publications.
By
Prof. R. D. Mishra.
The Devakumar-Jain memorial volume of the Jaina Siddhanta Bhaskara is in the hands of the reader. The editors and the pube lisher of this issue deserve congratulations for bringing it out. I am sure Late B. Devakumarji will be remembered long inspite of this volume. He has done enough services that way, and as such the importance of the publication lies in another direction. He was a greatman and died at a comparatively young age, about 44 years ago. By this time only a handful of his contemporaries live to recount his life and greatness of a great life is not to be seen in his massive works only. A great man is great in every moment of his life and an account thereof would remind everyone of us high and low, that "we can make our lives sublime." The reader would find many articles in this volume to serve this end.
B. Devakumarji belonged to the class of big Zamindars. In a few months to come, the whole class will be effaced from the Indian Economy and Social structure. Had the bulk of Zamindars lived a life like that of Late B. Devakumarji, their history would have been different. They had enough money and time but they did not know how to use them best, a thing which the late lamented Jainji knew and he acted up to it most splendidly.
The author of this article has privilege to know the members of the family of Jainji, and had occasions to listen to his friends.
Knowing his family means to know him as an ideal family head. When one listens to his friends recounting his acts, he finds Jainji a friend in need and a friend in deed and thus a friend indeed. jainji was a saint both at home and abroadma rare ideal of life in these days of hypocracy. Arrah people will remember him as a founder of an institution of international fame thereby making Arrah
place of high importance, people of Shahabad remember him as a
