Sanatan Jain

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SANATANA JAIN.
he five years sual routiutised,
the nesise their
12 years
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presented to the Rajah for. I believe cal tines it is suggested that it is some Rs. 20,000 and the P. W. D. scarcely safe for the Government to repaired and have kept in repair the ignore their request to have the whole large Bungalow up to the present time, Hill handed over to them and I see but the Barrack I have heard has been Mr. Agarwalls goes over the same dismantled altogether.
ground in his letters to the "EnglishDuring the five years the troops occu. man"; and what was the object of pied the Hill the usual routine of bringing 2,000 of this gentry to meet providing food for them was practised, the Lieutenant-Governor except to sheep, goats, fowls etc., were killed emphasise their thinly veiled tbreat!!! on the hill but cattle were slaughtered for the past 4 years they have at the foot of the Hill. The men roamed been harrying anii worrying the prothe hill as they pleased andthe pilgrims prietor of the Hill, (The l'aulgunge came and went annually and there Rajab) with la! suits, and now they was never a complaint about the soldiers claim some rights under an Ikrar. interfering or molesting them or nah., but I imagine no proprietary about the killing of sheep on the Hill, rights have been given away in it. Everything went on smoothly and However that is a question for & quietly as it did also for the time that Court of Law to decide. I was in possession aster the Military In closing this letter I may mention had vacated.
that the top of the Hill, affords fine 1 see Mr. Agarwalla on behalf of
pasturage for sheep, that I have the Jains has lately been voluminous crown Tobacco there superior to Manilla .ly descanting in the " Englishman" from Virginia seed, that I have had on the "Sanctity" of the bll but logs of Sal Timber there 80 feet long, he.does not state where the sanctified four feet wide, at side base and two boundary line begins or ends. As feet at small end. In fact they were suggested by the Government in 1860
overnment in 1860 so large that only the top and sides the Jains should be compelled to fence could be squared, the Sonthals having in each temple (some of which are no appliances for turning the log only two feet high) or series of temples. Over to get at the underside. There It is clear the question of Sanctity is gold on the hill in a rift or dyke We not much to the fore in the Co.'s on the eastern side. A specimen of when zondescript mendicant Brahmin ore was shown to me in which the etc., had to be hired to officiate in particles of gold were quite visible the only residential temple then on to the naked eye. the Hill.
Of course it is a well recognised fact Had the whole facts of the case been that the ryots and others on the Paulpláced before the Alipur Court and junge Estate have rescriptive rights for the High Court they would never have hunting and killing same on the hill, got the maimed decree (an injunction These rights accrued centuries before against & piggery I am told Which any Jain Thirtan kur set foot on they claim to have got.)
Parisnath Hill, but the grand hunt Prior to the meeting of the Lieu
comes off annually in March when tenant Governor on the Hill, I observed
the grass and under wood have been in the papers, members of the Jain
burnt down and the iungle cleared, Community held meetings in various
Then they assemble in thousands:places in India Proclaiming that they
Yours obediently. were very wealthy, very influential,
E. L. CANTWELL. aut very powerful, and in these criti. Calcutta, Noy. 4th.