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proceeds upon the assumption that to hainper them in their religious exthe present conditions are immutable ercises! The freaks of nature it is and will continue in their entirery for not for man to control. Nature rúÓS all time. The basis being dangerously riot in her upheavals. Who knows slippery the Jains will be pardoned but that the present arrangements if they refuse to pin any faith in it. niay be completely transformed, and
The Judges of the High Court who then what safeguard can there be adjudicated upon the Piggery case against the worshippers who want to very properly asked : "Supposing that be "far from the world's ignoble the present Road by a reason of some strife" coming in direct contact, if unforeseen cause or other becomes im- not collision with the sickening 2680passable and the only route conve- ciations of a world revelling in fish, nient for ascending the Hill is a fresh and wine or indulging in pa. route by the side of the Piggery or times or practices repugnant to the supposing that one of the Jains were Jains. Is there any check to obviate to build a temple on a site close to such a dire possibility? The supposithe Piggery could it be contended tion that I have inade is not an over tbat his worship in the temple would colored or far-fetched one. The Jains not be hindered by the slaughter in lave good reasons to suspect that the the Piggery." Applying the query contingency inay casily take place iu to the present circumstances I bave all human calculation and when it no difficulty in answering it by a does, then even according to the Jain. clear and emphatic negative. The ism as understood by the English parity of reasoning in both cases is Tribunal farewell to the religious complete. If by a convulsion of na rights which the Jains have enjoyed ture the present Road learling up to in the Hill from a remote period which the temples and shrines over head does not come within the records of becomes impassable or no trace is history. The mind shrinks from con Jeft of it and the only route that templating such a catastrophe. But admits of communication turns out to those who want to lull the Jains into be the one that runs through the the belief that the distance of a sepeheart of the future colony of resi. rate world will prevent the risk of dences, what becomes of the vaunted their spiritual functions being in any argument that the pilgrims will never way interfered with, may well ponder have any occasion to encounter the over it. I put it to the Government degrading sights and sounds of & is it politic to build too much on the world from which they badly need “argument of distance " which can immunity during their pilgrimage on not bold water under the aforesaid
circumstances and must preforce give the Hill. Could it be said that an in
way when subjected to a close scrusurmountable obstaele would not thus tiur.. Jurs faithfully, Le place iu their way which is likely
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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