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JAINA GAZETTE. (Aug. & Sept.
The Jain Community has not had time to wipe its tears of sorrow for Seth Manackchand Hirachand, J. P., and yet we are overtaken by a fresh grief in the death of Babu Dhannoolal Agarwala, B.A., Attorney-at-Law of the Calcutta High Court. He was in the prime of life, and in the enjoyment of a very successful and lucrative practice. He died on the 5th August after a short illness. He was a legal adviser to the Digainbar Community in the Parashnath Hill case ; and had invited the learned Professor Gopal Das to Calcutta to deliver some lectures on Jain Philosophy and Logic. Now that he is no more, the Digambar Jain Com. munity would do well to elect without delay a successor to him as their legal adviser in the highly expensive litigation in which it is involved.
AND YET ANOTHER. Misfortune comes upon the Digambar Jain Community in the death of Seth Parmeshti Das Raniwala, at Calcutta on the 31st August. He and Babu Dhannoo Lal were the two Plaintiffs who represented the Digambar Jain Community in the case pending at Hazaribagh for compulsory execution of a lease in favour of the Digambar Jains on terms settled by the Local Government. He was a leading rais and a worthy representative of a noble family. His manners were affable. He led a simple life and died a quiet death. He was about 50 years of age and Babu Dhannoo Lal was much younger. To the Calcutla Digambar Jain Community the loss is irreparable. We offer our sincore condolence to the family members of the two Jain worthies and pray that their spirits may rest in peace.
With suchs orious losses in quick succession the Digambar Jain Community must put forth its best efforts to find, and to produce capable men to guide its destiny.
To merely grieve and she tears is not acting like a trae Jain. Misfortunes are the necessary incidents of life. They have to be endured and overcome. ,
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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