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THE JAINA GAZETTE tells Indra, "I do not want thy help, let me kill my Karma myself, let me stand up on my own feet." How many there are in India to day who dare speak these words, "let me stand up on my own feet." These were the words taught by Mahavir twenty-five hundred years ago. These are the words that can save us today. Then let us be brave. Let us know the "spirit within the heart." We have slept long. We have stood on other's legs for long. Now, “Let us stand on our own feet". And if we will hear the call of our Lord, Aryavarta will again become a mighty nation in the world. It will renew the life of Hindustan, will rejuvenate Her, will make Her mighty again, mighty and young with immortal youth.
BEHARILAL BORDIA, B.A.,
DEOGARH KSHETRA. IT is a famous and holy place 19 miles off from Lalitpur and 1 7 miles off from Jakhlone village. It is a very small village where Saharias and Ahirs live. There is no Jain house, except a Jain Pujari who daily goes to worship the idols situated on the said hill, the range of the Bindhya mountain. The village of Deogarh is situated on the bank of the Betwa river. The hill of Deogarh is 3 hundred feet high from the level ground o.which there is built a fort of Karnali made by the Bundela The work of Verma Chandel. There are 16 Jain temples a unique one. On the west siãeod condition others are not. named the Raj Ghati and the Náhar Ghati for gouldest type and the hill. These ways are made of a solid rock. In the west of the hill there is a cave named Sidha Gupha carved out cl a solid rock. From the centre of the hill the stairs are led to it. Down the hill in the plain there is a Dak Bungalow, where the forest officers and other visitors take rest. In the north of this Bunglow there is a temple of Dashabtar or Sagar myre. Dashabtar, Sidha Gupha and Nahar Ghati all these seem to have been
built by the Gupta Kings. In front of Dashabtar there is a pillar of Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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