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even to the courts. I do not wish that it should go to such an extent. I would advise both the parties to settle these disputes either within themselves or with the help of a panchayat. It is unwise to seek help from the courts for things which can be done by our community. We should pray to our leaders to extinguish this fire in our house and to save it from destruction. It is feared that by this strife there will be obstructions to our work in the sacred places. An appeal in a case regarding the Sammed Sikhar is now in the Privy Council. Two other cases are pending in the Patna High Court. When we are engaged in our domestic quarrels, we are unable to do any other work. The committee has passed a resolution that every Jain should pay a rupee every year to the committee for the cost of maintaining and protecting the sacred places. The panchayats should take pains to collect the contributions in their places in the month of Bhadrapada and send the amount to the office of the committee.
Brethren! I believe that you have all come here with feelings of reverence for this sacred place and that you have great interest in serving the cause of our sacred Tirthas. With these words I close my speech.
THE JAINA EDUCATION FUND
ASSOCIATION, MYSORE. Report of the Secretary read at the Special Session,
14th March 1925.
DEFORE proceeding to lay before you a brief report of the work D done in the past, I wish to deal, for the information of our northern brethren, with the main objects of the Association and the principal needs of the community which they are intended to fulfil. The Association has the following aims in view, viz.,
(i) To promote general, technical and religious education among Jains through the distribution of Scholarships and in other suitable ways.
(ii) To improve and elevate the social, moral and political status of the Jaina community. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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