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WELCOME ADDRESS
то His Highness Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur,
G.C.S.I., G.B.E., The Maharaja of Mysore. May it please Your Highness, WYJE the Jains of the Mysore Province and of the
Bharatavarsha who have assembled in this sacred place for the Mahamastakabhishekam of the Blessed Lord Sri Gommata Swami, consider ourselves greatly fortunate since Your Highness has graciously consented to our humble invitation, in spite of many important state functions, to open the sixth annual celebration of the Mysore Jaina Education Fund Association and to accept our humble and loyal welcome address. We most respectfully beg to offer our grateful thanks for Your Highness's gracing this occasion and for making us all happy by Your Highness's sacred and noble presence.
In the Saka year 1533, in the year called Sadharana, Srimad Raja Wadiyar Bahadur, the then King of Mysore took possession of Srirangapattana and ascended the jewelled throne. From that memorable time Your Highness's ancestors have, with charitable mind, been granting lands etc. for the performance of daily worship, and for the propagation of Dharma here We are supremely fortunate that your Highness is helping likewise with the happy result that this sacred place is now in this exalted and glorious state. A unique feature of your Highness's heart is a deep and sympathetic concern for the we!fare of the subjects. According to the adage " Raja Prakritiranjanat" (the King is he who makes his people happy), regarding the happiness and misery of the people as Your Highness's own, Your Highness goes round the state to realise their misery personally, and grants immediate relief after hearing the prayers of the grieved. We who live under the rule of such a kind and magnanimous ruler regard ourselves
greatly fortunate. Living in the Rama-rajya of this DOOX090 ob 2020 BUDED Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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