Sanatan Jain

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SANATANA JAIN.
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able Judges of High Court. The learned effect. After all, the claims of the Judges remarked that the plaintif's Jains are not as proposterous as they witnesses have told us that in their es. are made out to be. They are acute: timation every stone of Pareshnath Hill. and quick-witted their dealings to the is holy and an object of adoration highest degree and never allow them. and that the reason for this is that selves to be swayed by sentiinental although tradition tells them that twe. considerations. In the present case, aty Tirthankars and an innumerable mere sentiment has no place in their company of Sadhus passed away on opposition but it is guided by the deParesh Nath Hill the Tradition did mands of justice, and fair play as based not reveal what spot each of th. on lacts that cannot be juggled with ein died; and that they may have died or explained away. D. LA anywhere on the Hill each part of it is (thus) equally an object of aloration." There is no knowing which TO THE EDITOR OF THE English mrena." parts of the Hill are sanctified by the
SIR, - In continuntion of my preNirvana of the Tirthankars and
vious communications on the subject other devotees. It is impossible to
of Paresh Nath Hill, I now beg to identify with any digree of certainty
submit the following further comthe consecrated spots associated with
ments and hope you will be able to their austerities and devotions. In
find room for them in your journal. default of accurate information, the Jains are not to be blamed if they re.
I have advanced the contention gard the Hill as a whole, trodden over
that the Jains regard the whole of the
Paresh Nath Hill, despite its great by their saints in the dim past, as fragrant with their sacred memories
extent, as sanctified by the devotional and therefore surcharged with hallow
achievements of their Tirthankaras. ed associations. It is thus for cen.
In their eyes, every inch of ground taries that they are jealously
in the Hill, even the meanest slab of quarding the entire bill against
stone are instinct with sacred associa. the least touch of contamination. tions. In proof of this, it would be Every part of the hill irre. interesting to give some account of spkctive of the extent of the whole is the rites and ceremonies observed hy an object of equal adoration to them. the Jains when they are, first, within In the face of these facts, the Jains sight of the Hill and then when they may be pardoned if they stoutly oppo: ascend it. I give below the account sed the desecration of their sacred place as proved before the District Judge of worship, which will be an a comp. of the 24. Pergunnng in 1890 in the lished fact if the ill started proposals celebrated Piggery case. The learued of the deputy Coinmissioner of Hazari. Judge opined from the mass of evibagh are allowed to be carried into conc: before him that very part of