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JAINA GAZETTE.
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THE JAIN BROTHERS' ASSOCIATION. ALLAHABAD.
THE FIRST ANNUAL REPORT,
1913-14.
On the oth of September 1913, the Students of the Sumer Chand Digamber Jain Boarding House, Allahabad, assembled in a meeting and passed the following resolutions :
1. That an Association be started in this Boarding House, so that the students residing in it may have the opportunity of learning how services to our country in general, and to the Jain religion and community in particular, should be rendered in an organised form.
2. That permission should be obtained from the General Secretary of the Bharat Jain Mahamandal for the affiliation of this Association to the August Mahamandal.
The permission was very soon obtained and on the 14th September it was decided that the Association be started as a Branch of the Mahamandal and its name should be the Jain Brothers' Association, Allahabad.
The Opening Ceremony.—On the 21st September Brothers Ajit Prasad Sahib, M. A., LL. B., and Chaitan Das Sahib, B. A., came down to Allahabad to perform the opening ceremony. All the Jains of Allahabad, including the ladies, were invited in the new building of the Boarding House, where Brother Ajit Prasad Sahib, after a very instructive speech, declared the Association established.
Rules drafted in a previous meeting were subsequently passed in an open-air meeting held the same night. In these, the following aims and objects of the Association were defined :
(a) Union and progress of the Jain Community.
(6) Propagation of Jainism. Special attention being paid to(1). Spreading of liberal Education among the
Jain.
(2) Social improvement of the Jain Community. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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