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॥ ॐ नमः सिद्धेभ्यः ॥
नो रोगाः नैव शोकाः नकलहकलनाः नारिमारि प्रचारा, नैवार्धना समाधिर्न च दुखदुरिते दुष्टद्रारिद्रतानो; नो शाकिन्यो ग्रहानो न हरि करि गणव्याल वैतालजालाः, जायन्ते पार्श्वचिन्तामणि नति वसतां प्राणिनां भक्ति भाजाम् ॥
The Jain Swetamber Conference Herald,
Vol. I. ]
December 1905.
APPEAL TO JAIN LEADERS.
(L. S. Kothari, B. A. Mount Abu.)
[ No. XII
The Jain community of India, a most influential part of the commercial gentry of India, must have realized by this time that the present is the year of famine and scarcity all over the country. During this life-destroying time the condition of those who live from hand to mouth, and with great difficulty earn their daily bread is beyond comprehension. A larger number of the higher classes of men in India, following as they are the vocations such as service-state or private, charity and so on, can at least manage to keep their body and soul together in such times. But the class that has its how existence solely dependent on trade and agriculture, knows no way to maintain life in such difficult times. Although the present drought is general almost all over the country, yet it has assumed a most pitiable shape in Rajputana. In this province, these afflicted days have just been on the heels of the time of "Chhappan" and "Sathia" the effects of which have not at all disappeared. As you all know trade flourishes only in plentiful. times. be In days of adversity it, which in India really speaking can not b called even "trade," has no existence whatever. To those who have studied the character of Indian trade and traders it must have been quite clear that it is nothing more than a post office work on the side of products. The Jain raders of India have hardly taken to the productive lines" of political
