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THE JAINA GAZETTE.
गजभुजंगमयो रपि वंधनं । शशिदिवाकरयोर्ग्रहपीडनं । मतिमतां च विलोक्य दरिद्रतां । विधिरहो वलवानिति मे मतिः ॥
Notes and News. The Jain Cominunity possessed only one man who could truly be called a Graduate-Pandit. This man, Pandit Arjun Lal Sethi, B. A., of Jaipur, has for the last 9 months been lost to the cominonity. The last that we saw of biin was at the Syadvad Mahotsava, Benares, in December last year, when he delivered his adınirable discourses ou religious subjects in the Town Hall. In March last he was the Principal of the first Jain High School founded at Indore by Rai Bahadur Seth Tilokcband Kalyanmal, and it was in that School that he was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the Delhi conspiracy and the Arrah murder cases. While these cases dragged their weary length along, he was till June last kept in close confinement at Indore, and was therefroin sent under arrest to Jaipur, where he is still undergoing incarceration in lock-up. The two cases have long been decided and nothing has been found in either to justify Arjun Lal's detention in custody. The Jaiu public bave been sorely grieved on his account, and have, we are informed, approached the Government and the Jaipur Raj by bumble petitions and telegrams, but with no satisfactory result. It is a long term, nine months, to keep a mau in custody without a trial. And we are informed that his custody is in a way severer than soli
tary confinement. He is not allowed to speak to any friend or Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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