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JAINA GAZETTE.
[June & July
Correspondence.
DEAR SIR,
May I ask you to open the esteemed columns of your Jain Gazette for the following, for the information of your readers. The charitable Jain Aushadhalya was opened here in Cawnpore near Sabzimandi in the year 1906. It is carried on by the subscriptions collected from the local Jain public only. Besides Jains, it has got sympathisers in other communities too, who came forward with donations and subscriptions, which we declined, feeling ourselves strong enough to stand on our own legs. This, I think, is a sufficient proof of the popularity of the Aushadhalya.
Lala Kanhiya Lal Jaini the Vaid-not a quack but a certificated one--in wbose charge the Aushadhalya is, gets medicines, prepared in the Aushadhalya in his presence, according to the principles laid down in the Jain Shastras and makes a free distribution of them among the patients. He devotes inost of his time in the Aushadhalya and can be consulted by any one free of charge. The medicine is distributed free, not only among
the Jains, but also among followers of other faiths. Medi:cines can also be sent to the Jains living outside Cawnpore, on their applying for them with a careful and thorough history of the disease from which they are suffering. We have made so much concession as to send medicines free-of even packing and postage charges—to the Jains only. The average number of patients attending the Aushadhalya these days is over one hundred per day. In order to give your readers an idea of the management of the Aushadhalya I cannot do better than lay before them, one or two of the many unsolicited certificates given by occasional visitors.
(1). “I visited the Jain Charitable Aushadhalya at Sabzimardi, Cawdpore City, to-day and was shown over it by the Secretary Babu Anup Singh and Lala Kanbiya Lal, Vaid, in charge of the institution. This Ausbadhalya bas been in existence for the past six ycars and from examination of the
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