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ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય પરિષદ
to learned men without distinction of caste or creed.
And by another strange and happy coinci. dence the completion of this shrine of knowledge took place about the time fixed by the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad for the performance of a sacrifice of knowledge as a tribute to the memory of the saint above-mentioned in appreciation of the pioneer work done by him towards the consolidation of the conquests made by the said two kings of the Solanki branch of the Western Calukyas and the creation of a distinctive cultural consciousness in the minds of the inhabitants of the vast territory now bounded on the north by the Aravalli mountain, on the south by the Damanganga, on the west by the Arabian Sea and on the east by Mewad, Dungarpur, Vansvada, Jabua and Dhar states and the British districts of Khandesh and Nasik. The Honourable Mr. K. M. MUNSHI, the Minister for Home and Legal Affairs of the Government of Bombay, who partly on account of the valuable contribution that he has made to the development of the literary and cultural life of Gujarat and partly on account of his admirable organizing and administrative capacities, is the President of the said Parishad since the commencement of its thirteenth session held at Karachi in the Christmas week of 1937, was naturally to be the Master of Ceremonies at the said sacrifice. Being one of the ministers of the Congress Government and a well-known novelist who had already obtained a hold on
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