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Some 25 brothers and sisters have taken a similar vow for future. The success of the function is due to the presence of Shri Sumati Vijayaji Maharaj and other Sadhus who had been here to pass the rainy season
Diksha Mahotsava. Pujya Indar Rekhji of Patti, Lahore had been desiring to renounce the world and adopt asceticism. He has regularly taken on 28-11-28 the necessary vows, after undergoing all the ceremonies and Muni Shri Vichar Vijayaji Maharaj have been pleased to make him his disciple, as Vinaya Vijayaji Maharaj.
He disbursed all his movable and immovable property for public use Rs. 60 to Shri Atmanand Jain Gurukul, Punjab, Rs. 100 to Shri Jain Tract Society Ambala, Rs. 50 to the shrine of his Guru at Patti and so on. An upasaraya with Rs. 4000 has been handed over to the brothers at Patti to be used as an Upasaray for the stay of the Sadhus visiting the locality.
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The S. I. Humanitarian League, Madras.
The first Annual Report of the South Indian Humanitarian League, which is now published is a record of splendid work done in the cause of Ahimsa. The League is adopting the following method of work. 1. The Lecturers and the Bhajana party go out daily in the different parts of the city and preach. 2. The people are persuaded individually by the League propagandists to give up flesh-eating, drink and animal sacrifice. Pledges are taken on the forms printed for the purpose. 3. The League does wide and intensive propaganda on occasions of feast and festivities, when much flesh-eating and animal sacrifice are resorted to. 4. Public lectures and magic lantern demonstrations by prominent humanitarian workers are arranged now and then in the various parts of the city. 5. Essay competitions with attractive prizes are arranged for the college and High School Students. 6. Propaganda tracts and wall posters are printed on a large scale in different languages. 7. Cases of cruelty to animals are detected and reported to proper authorities. The League has Rs. 29,962 in the Permanent Fund Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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