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NOTES AND NEWS.
Our Frontispiece. This month our fron'ispiece gives the photo of Lala Gopichand Jain B.4., L.L.B., Advocate, Ambala city. He is an enlightened Swetambar Jain of the Kesriwal family of the Oswal Jain community. Notwithstanding his English Education and thorough acquaintance with the western mode o living and civilization, he is a strict follower of the Jaina teachings. He is a good scholar of Jainism and takes great interest in the uplist and progress of his communily. He has given away as donations and subscriptions thousands of rupees to Jaina institutions religious and educational. His peaceful and genial nature, his excellent manners and his great love for his Jain brethren have earned him much respect from the Jains and Non-Jains equally. For a full account of his life and activities we refer the readers to pp. 122-124 of the April issue. We have published elsewhere in this issue his learned article on "Das Lakshan Dharma" which deserves calm perusal. May he live long to serve his great Religion and guide his community.
Das Lakshani Parva. The Das Lakshani Parva, the period for practising the ten dharma has come round again. Uttama Kshama Excellent Forgiveness requires us to forget and sorgive all the faults of others and we humbly request others to similarly forget and forgive all our faults. It is not to be understood that the ten dharma should be practised in this period only and neglected on other days but special and concentrated attention is now bestowed on them. What should the Jainas do now? Will the Digambaras forget the crimes of their Swetambara brethren and forgive them and will the Swetambaras do likewise ? Is it not a mockery and a deliberate lie to say that we are practising Uttama-Kshama, Uttama-Mardava, Uttama-arjava, Uttama-salya and Uttama-samyama etc., when we are actually shooting to death our own brethren? Will the leaders among the Swetambaras and the Digambaras soon come to an amicable setilement and brotherly understand
ing? What if a particular sacred place is in the custody of the Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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