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320 We hope, however, that the widespread efforts of our Jain brethren for the release of Pandit Arjun Lal Setti, B. A., from a felon's jail where he has been detained since Darch last, without a triał and without a charge, will be crowoed with success at no distant date.
May we expect that oor just and sympathetic Viceroy will take early measures to ensure that the dark and gloomy home where Arjun Lal's wife and children reside will be made happy and cheerful on Christmas Eve when all Christendom rejoices and makes merry.
He did not in our last issue particularly notice the question of widow marriage, discussed and decided by the Jain Brothers' Association, Allahabad. We must, however, point out that no sanction for such an usage can be found in the Jain Scriptures ; and the sentiment of the Jain Cominunity is strongly opposed to it. It is admittedly an evil, and when the efforts of our young inen at stopping early marriages, and marriages between old men and young girls, and towards observing the Brahmcharya Anu Vrata, are successful, “ a young widow" sball be an impossibility. The question should not have been taken up at all by the Association, and we would strongly recommend its expunction from the report.
The tenth anniversary of the Syadvad Daha Vidyalaya Kasbi, will be held at Benares on the 25th and 26th December 1914. Dr. T. K. Laddu, B. A., (Cantab.), Ph. D., Sanskrit Professor, Queen's College, Benares, luas kindly consented to preside. We hope our friends will muster strong to make the occasion a success.
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. The special number of the Digamber Jain.---This is the 3rd Special Vir-Nirvana Number of our Surat Contemporaryand we are glad to notice that it is in no way inferior to those wbich bave preceded it. The title page is a decided
improvement in idea as well as execution. Devotion and Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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