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अध्याय तेरहवां ।
Various small sums between 6,000 to 10,000 for charit
able purposes such as founding schools for girls, scholarships, preparing Jain Directories, have not been included in the list. Government rewarded him with a justiceship of the peace.
It is no small wonder if the Digambar Jain community is mourning his loss as they would mourn the loss of a king.
"Modern Review" Calcutta September. 1917 4
राजा गणा छत्रपति हथिय के असवार । मरना सबको एक दिन अपनी अपनी वार ॥ दल बल देवी देवता मात पिता परिवार । मरती बिग्यिां जीवको कोई न राखनहार ॥
A great soul has passed away from amongst us, to accelerate its evolution to perfection. Dana-veer, Juinkula Bhu han, Shriman Seth Maneckchand Hirachand Justice of the Frace, Bombay, was a respec ed and hon red name in every Jain family throu, hout India; and the grief caused by his parting is as general and wide-spread Jati sewak or servaut of the community is a title lightly adopted by many a young and old hypocrite as a means for gaining low personal ends But the great man, for whose loss to us we are in mourning today, was a real benefactor and had the service of the jain community at heart. Born in 1851 in a great and famous family of jewellers, he for the last 16 or 17 years devoted the greater part of his life and fortune to the service of religion and community. He did not know the English language, but in the Jain community he was the first to conceive the idea of establishing Jain Boarding Houses to afford large and special facilities to students. In 1898 at a cost of Rs. 80,000 he founded
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