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whom should be mentioned the renowned Professor Peterson, the real edifice of his scholarship was all raised up in that wider Uưiversity of the constant companionship of Sanskrit Pandits, Shastries and Sanyasis, to which he was gradually drawn in his post-graduate life. But of this a little later.
After leaving the University of Bombay, Tanasukharam joined his father's business, which at that time consisted chiefly of the Agentships in Bombay of several of the important native states of Cutch and Kathiawar. The office of the Bombay Agent of native states was at that time a much more important position than it can ever be to-day. Some of the ablest of our public men in those days were offered, and gladly accepted, such a position which was one of considerable influence and responsibility. Thanks to the training Manassukharam gave him, Tanasukbaram discharged these functions with great success, and at the time of his father's death in 1907, was himself confirmed as Agent of the important State of Cutch. It must be recorded as a fact reflecting credit to both the parties that, just as Tanasukharam continued to perform this duty with great loyalty and devotion, through all the activites of his literary and scholarly pursuits to the er 1 of his day in 1922, so His Highness the Maha Rao Saheb of Cutch on his part showed worthy appreciation of these services of the family by further bequeathing the Agentsbip, when Tanasukharam himself was no more, on the young shoulders of the only surviving son, Dharmasukharam.
It may also be worthy of note that the line of conduct laid down by the wisdom and foresight of Manassukharam was so well followed by Tanasukharam, as regards the management of his property and investments, that, during the critical period of 1907 to 1922, when Bombay was so often deeply shaken by speculation.manias and monetary crises, and when many a respectable and well-to-do investor succumbed to the feverish madness to get suddenly rich, Tanasukharam managed to keep his head on his shoulders and hastened slowly, but steadily, on the road to prosperity.
However, he was not equally fortunate in escaping other physical ills. Though built on a large and massive frame and with an inclination to stoutness, his constitution never possess -
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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