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THE JAINA GAZETTE may just point out that what is expected of our educated brethren is just a trifling sum of 4 Annas a month. It is simply discouraging to see that even at this rate there are several subscribers who are in arrears of their subscriptions for even five years and more.
It is needless for us to point out how wonderfully we can improve the journal with some more co-operation on the part of our subscribers. Therefore in the name of the blessed cause of our Religion we would earnestly appeal to our subscribers to pay their subscriptions regularly every year, to enlist as many new subscribers as possible and to help the journal with literary and pecuniary contributions whenever possible.
It may be just noted that the Journal has had to be irregular from its very start owing to the lack of the whole-hearted support of the community. Its financial status may best be judged from the fact that once in 1911 a joint issue had to be published for 5 months together. During the last few years every effort is being taken to run the journal more regularly but the amount of the Subscriptions realised is hardly sufficient to cover the expenses of bringing out 12 issues a year and hence all this irregularily. Therefore we request our subscribers to overlook all these unavoidable irregularities and to extend their wonted genercus patronage to the journal hereafter.
An useful charity. A correspondent writes :
Seth Gopal Ambadas Chavre has apportioned the sum of Rs. 25000 Twenty Five Thousand for the publication of the Jain Ancient literature under the Secretaryship of Prof. Hiralal. He has done excellent work in cataloguing the old manuscripts of Apabbransha literature at Karanja. The book is a Government publication. The first book of the Series called Ambadas Gangasa Digambar Granthamala named after the father of Mr. Chavre is expected to appear in December.
We are obliged for this useful charity to Seth Gopal Ambadas to whom the idea was first suggested by Shri Virsena Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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