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The Bharat Jain Mahamandal. THE AĻL-INDIA JAIN ASSOCIATION.
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EstaBLISHED 1899.
The year 1913 was a record year for the Associativn. Nerer Lefore in the history of Jain Gatherings was seen such an assenblage of Erudite Scholars of the West and the East. Never on any previous occasion was the non-Jain public found to be so anxions to hear discourses on " Jain Philosophy." Day after day the seats - in the Town Hall of Benares used to be occupied long before this commencement of the proceedings, and special arrangements Frid to be made for the distinguished visitors coming at the proper. time or a little later,
All this “ Prabluarapa," all this glory of Jainism, was unprecedented. The Pioneer, the Learler, and other neivepapers hare given prominent notice to the activities of the Mandal. The German papers are louilly pralaiming Jainism). The title of Jain Darshan Divakar conferred on Dr. Jacobi, will to quote the words of Dr. Strauss,“ be highly appreciated by learned Germanyos all around." In the words of Jahamahupadhyaya Dr. Satis.Chandra, Vidya-Bluran, M.d., Ph. D., M.R.A.S., F.A.S.B., F.I.R.S., Siddhanta-Malodadhi, the Bharat Lain Malamandal “gare the first impulse to all progressive uitvenients, and through its organ, the Juin Gazette, is supplying wolira power and vital energy to all Jain Movements in ludia. It is therefore the religious ints of eşery Jain to
(a) Juin the Mandal as a member. (6) Subscribe to the Jain Gazette, the nuly paper in the
community which is edited in English and has a
foreign circulation (c) Establish a branch of the Mandul inerer's Province,
ton and sillage, (d) Subscribe to the general funds of the Mandal. () Blake occasional contributions to the funds of thie
Dladu:l ou ceremonial occasions in the l'amily. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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