Jaina Gazette 1914

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

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JAINA GAZETTE.
191
In his last days he way maturing a scheme for the efficient protection of milch-cattle, who, when they cannot supply milk are generally sold to the butcher for their flesh and skin. His death was a sudden and painless one. He worked as usual till within an hour or two of his last breath.
His last idea which he discussed on the day he died with Mr. M. H. Udani, M. A., was that there should be established a Boarding House, with a Chaityalaya (place of worship), in London for the convenience of Jain students and visitors there. And we trust that the Jain community will carry out this last wish of their great departed benefactor by establishing a Maneckchand Boarding House in London, and thus perpetuate his illustrious name for ages to come.
We offer our sincere and heartfelt condolence to the illustrious lady, Jain Mahila Ratna, Shrimati Maganbai, and to all other members of the family, in the sad bereavement, which, we seriously say, is a bereavement not theirs alone, but of the whole Jain community throughout India.
The Digamber Jain of Surat has brought out an obituary number giving a brief life sketch of the philanthropic Seth and a pathetic poem extolling his deeds and virtues and has enclosed a good portrait of the decea sed.
Death has no power th' immortal soul to slay, That, when its present body turns to clay, Seeks a fresh home, and with unlesgened might, Inspires another frame with life and light. Souls cannot die. They leave a former home, And in new bodies dwell, and from them roam. Nothing can perish, all things change below, For spirits through all forms may come and go. Good beasts shall rise to human forms, and men, If bad, shall backward turn to beasts again. Thus, through a thousand shapes, the soul shall go, And thus fulfil its destiny below.