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Buddhi prabha life with earnest enthusiasm deprived of the satisfaction and soon put a new com- of paying their homage to plexion upon the afairs of the sacred shrine. Mr. VIRthe ASSOCIATION. His CHAND felt decply the cruel activity, considering his youth injustice of toe tax and at and inexperinece, was extra- once took up the matter in ordinary and the Association hand. He managed to soon came to be looked have interviews with Col. upon as a very important WATSON the P. A. useful institution by Jains M. K. and lord the then all over INDIA. His first enlightened Governor of great achievement was the BOMBAY. He convinced bringing about a reconcilia
them injustce at the tion between the Jain
tax and through their powercompunity and Sur
ful influence obliged the
Thrkor Saheb to come to an singhji, the late Thakor Saheb of Palitana, who had
amicable arrangement on the picked up a quarrel upon
question. The chief was to
be paid Rs. 15,000 annually the imprisonment of some of the clerks of the firm of
as Raklopa (up-keep ) and
he was to do away with ANANDJEE KALYANJEE,
tax. The arrangement was an institution for looking häild with grateful satisfaction: after the interests of the by thousands of poor Jains Jains of India. The Thakor who had hitherto been denSasieb used to levy from ied the pleasure of a pilgrievery pilgrim to SHATRUN
mage to the great shrine. JAYA HILL the sum of Rs, 2 as a Mundka (a kind of tax) Ic was time now for the for the upkeep of the Hill. young man to think of some This tax was a great hard permanent settlement in life ship on poor Jains who were and he thought of Law.
