Teacher of Humanity

Author(s): C S Mallinath
Publisher: Pulchandji Ved

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After the rainy season Vijaya Dharma Suri left Agra and making his way through Mathura, Brindawan, Bharatpur, Jaipur, Ajmer, and Beawar, entered into southern Marwar. The Jains of Rajputana, who had been thinking of holding a Jain Literary Conference, requested the Acharya to convene the Conference. The historic city of Jodhpur was chosen for the seat of the conference which met on the 3rd of March 1914. A number of delegates and distinguished visitors attended the Conference. Several resolutions, regarding the steps to be taken for the preservation and propagation of Jain literature, were passed. It was in this Conference that Dr. Jacobi, the distinguished scholar of Jainism, thanked the Jain Acharya, on behalf of himself and other European scholars, for the valuable suggestions and useful manuscripts that he had been giving them always readily and most willingly.
Some days after the Conference Vijaya Dharma Suri left Jodhpur and passing through several villages and towns, reached Shivaganj, before the rainy season of 1914. Here came the learned Italian scholar, the late Dr. L.P. Tessitori, to pay his respects to the Jain Acharya. The great simplicity of the Monk, his absolute renunciation and detachment from worldly objects, his learning and eloquence, his scholarship and piety made a deep impression upon the mind of the great Italian
scholar, so much so that he was tempted to write a