Jaina Gazette 1914

Author(s): J L Jaini, Ajitprasad
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office

Page 6

VOL. X.]
1914.
[No. 6 & 7.3
THE JAINA CAZETTE.
राजा राणा छत्रपति हथियने के असवार । मरना सबको एक दिन अपनी अपनी बार ॥ दल बल देवी देवता मात पिता परिवार । मरती बिरियां जीव का कोइ न राखन हार ॥
Notes and News. A great soul has passed away from amongst us, to accelerate its evolution to perfection. Dana-veer, Jain-kula-Bhushan, Shriman Seth Maneckchand Hirachand, Justice of the Peace, Bombay, was' a respected and honored name in every Jain family throughout India ; and the grief caused by his parting is as general and wide-spread. Jati-Sewuk or servant of the community is a title lightly adopted by many a young and old hypocrite as a means for gaining low personal ends. But the great man, for whose loss to us we are in mourning to-day, was a real benefactor and had the service of the jain community at heart. Born in 1851 in a great and famous family of jewellers, he for the last 16 or 17 years devoted the greater part of his life and fortune to the service of religion and community. He did not know the English language, but in the Jain community he was the first to conceive the idea of establishing Jain Boarding Houses to afford large and special facilities to students. In 1898 at a cost of Rs. 80,000 he founded the Hirachand Gumanji Jain Boarding House in Bombay, named after his respected father. He was a lover of Boarding Houses, a Boarding-Premi as some of his malevolent critics at one time nicknamed him. The Students' Boarding Houses