Sanatan Jain

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BIKESHNATH HILL.
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to the plane of the ordinary places shrincs are cuscouced in the topinost frequented by men. I beseech thc part, it follows that the building of Government to pause before such 80 residences is safely permissible in the undesirable state of things causing lower sites out of the sight of the pain, shame and humiliation to thoui devotees and worshippers. It seeks sands and thousands of loyal subjects to compromise the stern requirements and giving a rude shock to their relii of religion by the ignoble standard of gious feelings and scruples, is brought the cold and calculating wisdom of thc, about. The dictates of true statemani world. The Jains take their stand. ship would be to conciliate the opposii not merely on religious grounds in tion that has arisen on this delicate respect of which their position is in. patter.-Yours faithfully,
vulnerable, but also on the best and DHAXXU LALL AGARWALLA.
highest reasons sanctioned by law and IV
equity. It is curious that these consi:
derations are in a manner suimarily TO THE EDITOR OF THE ENGLISHMAN.”
thrown overboard in the excessive zeal SIR,-In continuation of my pre.
authorities to provide for so-called vious communications on the subject
public convenience for in fact the of Poreshnath Hill, I now beg to sub
public will not as I shall hereafter: mit the following further comments,
shew, be benefited at all. I maintain and hope you will be able to find room
that the leasing of sites with a view for them in your journal.
to the construction of buildings there. I have tried to establish by refer- on would secularise a place, every ineb ence to the judgment in the Piggery of which to the eyes of the Jains, is
great sanctity attached to the holy, and convert a shrine, whose antientire Poreshnath Hill. It is, indeed. quity is lost in the dimness of the deplorable that the Jains' view.point past, into & pleasure resort of the which has found favour with the modern fashionable type. . The sa. Hon'ble Judges is liable to such grie- credness of the place would be serious yous misconstruction as has been re- ly impaired by its close contiguity cently done in relation thereto. As with debased wordly associations. suming that the residences will be The killing of animals is absolutely built on sites out of the sight of the repugnant to the feelings of the Jains devotees and worshippers, although I Would the Government be in a posta sball hereafter show, as the fact is, on to guarantee that the slo that the proposed sites will be quite of animals for purposes of food or within the sight of the pilgrims and pleasure and numerous other matters will obtrude upon their notice. The most repugnant to the feelings of the proposition does not bear a moment's Jains would be strictly interdicted examination that because the hill is from the precinets of the Hill, far less vast in extcut aud the temples and on its busom: If ull tlu obpoxious