________________
232
SANATAN JAINA.
efforts to bave the matter gettled in so much chaos at present in the coun. a way whereby the .holiness and all try and which the Government fear so the importance of the place as well as much. their religious feelings may be fully Under these circumstances it must preserved. But all those things pro- be the pious duty of the Angloved of no avail. The Government Indian Papers which pose as the best stood as stubborn as the rock not friends and well-wishers of the Govern. minding in the least the most noble ment to suggest some right and just cause of the Jains.
course whereby some peaceful conci
liation may be brought about between It is a pity that the Government the Jaing & the Government
the Jains & the Government. But inwith their experience of the Indian stead of that the "Empire' of Calcutta people of nearly 150 Years have not in order to widen the breach between come to realize how dear and valuable these two parties & to add fuel to the & possession is the religion with an
fire already burning within the hearts
fire already hu Indian. Let the Government under
of the Jains has the following: - stand that the Indian will be ready to surrender his life than to lose his reli- STAGE THUNDER. gion. Religion forms the very back. "Empire ” :-With every desire to bone of his existance. The action of respect the feelings of the Jains their converting the Paras nath Hill into à agitation against the conversion of Sanitarium or sanctioning the per-, Paresnath into & sanatorium is mission of erecting bangalows thereon, thin. First of all they were argumenis most objection able according to the tative. They waited on the L..G. and tenets of the Jain Religion and the put their arguments in front of him. British Government according to one It was & modest and barmless plea in of the fundamental provisions of the its way. It only amounted to a claim Great Proclamation of 1858, ought to that the Jains should be authorized to pay the full respects to their religious play the part of dog in the manger feelings and susceptibilities. As yet the over the whole range of the Paresnath Jaius have strictly adhered to all bills, and that Bengal was to be de. the constitutional means but when all prived of 8.sanatorium and the railtheir remonstrances, expostulations, way was to have been extended and appeals after appeals are set aside to that part of the country without and if they are per force placed in a result. Modest and unassuming position to lose their dearest possession, as it was it did not appeal to Sir & possession which they value above Andrew Fraser, who sat upon it in everything else in this world, it is but a speech of great length and courtesy. possible that some of them may be dri. Then the Jains went on another tack. ven to dispair and may join that They sent a medical deputation to unrestful elements which have created Paresnath to report on the healthiness
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
www.umaragyanbhandar.com
