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Bahadaryo ni It may be said to his credit that ho never abused the confidenco placed in him by his mastor His sor vices m connection with the salt lease affair will long be gratefully apprecated by the Marwirt Once or twice, he fell under the displeasure of Tabht singh but through the interesuon of his Thah ur friends he was pardoned and received back into farour He was a great supporter of the Terapanthi' form of Jainism and in the phraseology of lus co-religionists, was tho Lala Harchand o the Marwar Ho died in Vik Sam. 194 (AD 1885) bhadra badi 7, at en age of about soventy
hithan Mal -Ho kas treasury officer during the carly part of the reign of Maharja Sarder Singh, and also during that of his predecessor He was a great financier and did his best to put thc Jarwar finances on sounder and timer footing The following popular quartet testifies to the esteem in which he was held by the people of Varaar -
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