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thom sheltor, food, etc. He was not sectarian in his approach as is illustrated by his help to Bhikkhu Dhammavara of Combodia when he migrated to Delhi from Pak-occupied Kashmir and established a Buddhist Temple and Ashok Mission Vihar in Mehrauli (near Delhi). In 1952 when Acharya Vinoba Bhave visited Delhi in connection with his Bhoodan Movement, Lalaji donated his entire 150 Bighas of Agricultural Land in village Arthala near Delhi. He was responsible for the repair of the National Archives of India and the preservation of 1500 years oldpalm-leaf manuscripts of the Dhavala and the Jaya Dhavala which were enshrined in Moodbidri in South Karnataka. He was instrumental in the publication of many books on social and religious themes. He himself translated into English the Samayasara and Niyamsāra of Acharya Kundakunda and wrote a book in Hindi entitled "Shravan-Belgola Aur Dakshin Ke Anya Jaina Tirtha". He helped the Government in recovering as many as 80 heads of antique images broken by the smugglers in 1959 in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, which led to their arrest and sentence. He was associated with a number of social and religious institutions, viz, Delhi Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Animal Friend, the All India Digamber Jaina Orphanage Society as its Vice-President. The All India Digamber Jain Sangha, Vidvat Parishad, the Veer Sewa Mandır, etc, He was clected unopposed as a Municipal Councillor of Delhi Municipal Committee and as a member of the Committee appointed by the Chief Commissoner, Delhi for acceleration of private buildings. As a colonizer, he developed Daryagan), Delhi-Shahdara, Ghaziabad, Western Extension Area and Ballabhgarh etc., and was appointed as the first sole selling agent of the Delhi Improvement Trust. He constructed many buildings prominent among them being the Madhya Pradesh Assembly Hall at Bhopal, the M. P. Govt. House at Kautilya Marg and many buildings for M. E S. at Agra and Delhi Cantt, and also for Northern Railway at Delhi Maid and other places.
