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JAINA GAZETTE. Correspondence.
DEAR SIR,
May I ask you to open the esteemed columns of your Jain Gazette for the following, for the information of your readers. The charitable Jain Aushadhalya was opened here in Cawapore near Sabzimandi in the year 1906. It is carried on by the subscriptions collected from the local Jain public only. Besides Jains, it has got sympathisers in other communities too, who came forward with donations and subscriptions, which we declined, feeling ourselves strong enough to stand on our own legs. This, I think, is a sufficient proof of the popularity of the Aushadhalya.
Lala Kanbiya Lal Jaini the Vaid- not a quack but a certifcated one-in whose charge the Aushadhalya is, gets medicines prepared in the Ausbadhalya in his presence, according to the principles laid down in the Jain Shastras and makes a free distribution of tbem among the patients. He devotes most of his time in the Aushadhalya and can be consulted by any one free of charge. The mediciue is distributed free, not only among the Jains, but also among followers of other faiths. Medicines can also be sent to the Jains living outside Cawnpore, on their applying for thein with a careful and thorough history of the disease from which they are suffering. We have made so mucli concession as to send medicines free-of even packing and postage charges-to the Jains only. The average number of patients attending the Aushadhalya these days is over one hundred per day. In order to give your readers an idea of the management of the Aushadbalya I cannot do better than lay before them, one or two of the many unsolicited certificates given by occasional visitors.
(1). “I visited the Jain Charitable Aushadhalya at Sabzimardi, Cawnpore City, to-day and was shown over it by the Secretary Babu Anup Singh and Lala Kanhiya Lal, Vaid, in charge of the institution. This Ausbadhalya has been in existence for the past six years and from examination of the
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