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acquainted with the needs of the times and the principles of Jainism. He also pointed out that Pratishthas were not so necessary as renovation and preservation of old ima. ges and relics, and the establishment of a Jain Archaeologi. cal Museum. In the addresses of both the Chairman and the President, the absence of a declaration that marriages. among Sub-castes and Sub-sects were proper and bene. ficial was generally noticed with regret. It was also worthy of note that pages 11 & 12 were missing from the printed copy of the address of the President and the leaf containing these pages had been torn away, and a probable inference is that the glaring omission was the result of a considered policy. 'in defference to the opinions of some influential members of the Reception Committee.
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Miss Shanti Mathur.
Excepting the fact that she and her father were invited by the Alwar or Patiala Durbar, and that a booklet with her picture was being sold in the streets of Delhi for one anna, there was no notice being taken at Delhi of what had been a few days' talk. The newspapers were silent on the subject.
We had heard of some similar occurrences in past years; and they all proved to be short-lived talks. Another rebirth.
We hear of a similar story in Jayaji Pratap. A girl was born in 1928 in Village Rusali Halqua Kirar near Shamsabad, District Bhilsa, C. P. At the age of 3, she claimed Gaibu brazier of Shamsabad as her husband in her previous birth, and his son Shankar as her son. Gaibu's wife died 15 years ago. The girl said that she had had one other birth in the interval, of the particulars of which she had no recollection at all.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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