Report on Accident of Muni Jambuvijayji

Author(s): Hiroko Matusoka
Publisher: ZZ_Anusandhan

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मार्च २०१०
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7:00 AM
According to Himavantvijayji, Jambuvijayji stopped breathing. No aid was available.
7:10 AM
According to Pundarikaratnavijayji, Pundarikaratnavijayji and the other three monks, who were one kilometer behind Jambuvijayji and the other three monks, reached the scene of the accident by foot.
7:20 AM
A driver informed us that there was a serious accident in which some monks had been crushed by a jeep, while others sustained serious injuries. Greatly shocked by such tragic news, all of the nuns and I, who were approximately 4 km ahead of the scene of the accident, rushed back to the scene almost running the entire way, breathlessly. It was a horrible scene to see Munishri Jambuvijayji and Namaskarvijayji lifeless and the old monk Dharmaghoshvijayji almost unconscious, as he was dragged about five meters by the speeding car.
8:00 AM
The police came from Baitu, approximatley 12 km away (Banner District, RJ). At the same time, an ambulance car arrived from Balotra (Barmer District, RJ), some 35 km away. Only Dharmaghoshvijayji and Himavantvijayji were taken in an ambulance to the hospital, and the dead bodies of Jambuvijayji and Namaskarvijayji were taken to Nakoda by car. Since I had a camera, the police asked me to take two photographs of Namaskarvijayji on the road and a photograph of Jambuvijayji in the car.
8:30 AM
We reached a hospital in Balotra. 9:00 AM
The bodies of the deceased monks were kept uncovered