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JAIN DIGEST Shatavdhan Program Arranged
The Jain Center of America, New York, arranged a
1 Shatavdhan Program on September 16, 1990 under the guidance of Acharyashri Chandanaji of Verayatan, India. Sadhvi Shubhamji, who is well known as Shatavadhani showed her ability of Shatavdhan. Shatavadhani is a process of listening to a list of one hundred numbered questions and then repeat the question with an answer as soon as the serial number of a question is called. One of the deciples of Acharyashri Chandanaji, Miss Manglam Kothari, also participated in the program by singing Bhakti songs. This was a unique experience for the audience.
Jain Center at St. Louis Starts Scholarship Program
SRI HOMBIYA JAINA MATHA ENDOWMENT SEMINAR
Chander Jain, epartment of Studies in Jainology and Prakrits, Uni
We Will Miss You versity of Mysore, Organized Sri Hombiya Jaina Matha Endowment Seminar on Grihastha Dharma and Shra
VAT ith sincere sympathy, JAINA expresses its convakachara Work" on 28th and 29th March 1990. The seminar VV dolences to the family of Dr. Chander Mohan was inaugurated by Dr. Amalorpa vadass. Dr. Robert J. Jain with the loss of him and his daughter, Nishant, due Zydenbos was the Chief Guest on the Occasion.
to a traffic accident in New London, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Jain was a leading academic and Jain scholar. Dr. Jain, a biochemist in the University of Western Ontario (London) died August 12, 1990. His 16 year old daughter, Nishant, was killed instantly in the accident that occurred on July 15, 1990.
The entire Jain community is saddened by these two
deaths and loss of such a leader. The Jain Center of Greater St. Louis has initiated a
scholarship program from this year on, for the 6th 8th, 10th and 12th grades. The objective of this is to recognize young members of the Jain community for their committment to the Jain principles and their academic merit. The following three scholarships were awarded on Sapana
New Caves Found Day: Deepa Shah, Grade 12, $501; Amar Salgia, Grade 10, $251; Ravi Nayak, Grade 6, $101. (No applications were received for the 8th grade.) Many families have already gen
Indian archaeologists have discovered 28 new caves crously contributed to the scholarship fund. They include:
I in Ellora (Maharashtra), raising the total number of Kanti & Urmila Gandhi Shanti & Manorama Khinduka;
the magnificent rock-cut caves to 62.
The discovery of the nearly 1100-year-old caves was made Kirti & Nalini Mehta; Satish & Premlata Nayak; Bharat & Meenal Shah; Mr. & Mrs. Dinesh Shah; Hasmukh & Mina
by a team of the Archaeological Survey of India, headed by Shah; Kirit & Leena Sha; Suresh & Indira Shah; Dilip & A.
Mr. P.N. Kamble. The findings have been described as extremely important in recent times, the newly-discovered caves, located and identified near Ellora in Aurangabad district, are in five groups and contain "good sculptures"
ranging from the 9th to the 13th century A.D. period. Most SPIRITUAL LEADERS IN USSR TRIP
sculptures bear traces of painted lime plaster on them. In
some cases, preserved bright paintings of later periods can A group of South Asian spiritual leaders and peace ac- also be seen. The new find was in the same tradition as the A tivists from the U.S. and Canada left for the USSR to rock-cut cave-temples of Ellora, representing three different discuss with Mikhail Gorbachev the present and future role faiths-Buddhist, Brahmanical and Jain-Marking the culmiof religion. Among many others, the group included nation of cave-temple architecture in western India. Acharya Sushil Kumarji and Amendra Muniji.
(Source: MLBD Newsletter, April 1990)
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