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THE JAINA GAZETTE I request your permission to send you a copy of the English Jaina Gazette and hope you would accept it. With my respects.
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Yours fraternally, JAGMANDER LAL JAINI M.A., Asstt. Lecturer in English Muir C. College.
ALLAHABAD,
26th August 1905. My dear B. Puran Chand,
Pray excuse my delay in acknowledging your very kind and sympathetic letter of the 18th instant. I was gone out of station and returned to here only yesterday. The Secretary of the Association has sent you a circular letter in your name. If you permit me, I shall be much pleased to ask him to forward to your address as many blank circular letters as you like, for other gentlemen, whom you may know to be likely to help us in our cause. Your letter has infused new life in my spirits. I was really surprised and sad I hat during the last about a year and a half of the existence of the Jaina Gazette and the six years existence of the J. Y. M. Association so few of the Jaina Graduates took any part at all in either. The youths of a nation represent its vigour ; and the educated youths of a nation verily represent its life and glory. There are scores of Graduates both Swetambar and Digambar ; but the sad fact is to be admitted that their public life runs at a very low ebb. The advanced nations of the world show a very stirring spectacle. Even their shopkeepers, masons, labourers, yea even coolies have their Associations and guilds, to which they look for guidance, for support and for sympathy and co-operation. I hope you will agree with me in holding that it is too late for us at this day to propose a split of the Jaina Community into several sub-classes, simply because of doctrinal and ritualistic differences. But so few of us really are eager to leave the time-worn groove, in which life in India has run for so many centuries. Indeed it would appear that even the most advanced of us are afraid of change. And what nation or individual could advance an inch who terribly fought shy of innovations ? A practical and thorough revision of our Social, moral, and socio-religious codes is urgently needed and why, I Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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