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OBITUARY Pandit Sukhlalji
Pandit (Dr.) Sukhlalji Sanghavi, an eminent Indologist and great thinker, expired on 2nd March, 1978. Indology has suffered an irrepairable loss. Pandit Sukhlalji has doininated the world of Indian philosophy and religion for the last sixty years and more by his deep scholarship and noble personality. He had rendered a progressive, purposeful and fruitful contribution to the wealth of human thought. His wide and varied and deep scholarship is reminiscent of Rșis of old. He was free from all sorts of dogmatism of sectarianism. His thoughts were not bound by any narrowness as he was always used to view things in historical perspective following strictly pure l'eason and rationalism. His simplicity of living, his nobility of thinking, his sensitivity to all aspects of a problem and his indefatigable persistence in the search of truth were exemplary. He was a scholar, a teacher and even a preacher embodying in himself the best of their qualities; and he was all along struggling to educate the society round about him. Above all he was a teacher par excellence. He payed so much heed to the thoughts of the alround well-being of his pupils. He was never satisfied with the superficial knowledge of his students, but always insisted on their acquiring thoroughness of the subject, himself helping them as far as possible in every way, even arranging for pecunary help,
Born on 8-12-1880 in a Jaina Sthanakavāsi family in a small village Limli in Surendranagar District, Saurasltra, he lost both the eyes at the age of sixteen owing to a virulent type of small-pox. He left the idea of marriage and remained naisthika brahmacārt throughout his life. His real education began after his unfortunate blindness. He had a genuine love for learning. He went to Benares at the age of eighteen. There he studied Nyāya under the Late Mm. Pt. Vamacarana Bhattacharya. For the study of Navya Nyāya he travelled to Mithila whera he found a truie teacher of Navya Nyāya in Mni. Pandit Balakrishna Mishra. Aster acquiring knowledge of Navya Nyāya he came back to Benaras, and here for some years he studied different branches of Sanskrit philosophy and literature. From Benaras he went to Agra. There he engaged himself in editing, with Hindi translation and annotation as well as his own valuable introductions some highly interesting religious and philosophical books, such as
Pañcapratik 1 mana, Karmagranthas, Yogadarśana and Yogavimśika. In 1922 "he was in did to join Gujarat Vidyapitli, Ahmedabad. So from Agra he
