Teacher of Humanity

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

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and scholarly method which is expected from an editor, and that he was the right man to undertake that publication.
In the year 1911 a fortnightly paper called the Jaina-Shasana came to be published in Hindi and Gujarati to spread amongst the Jain community a true and correct knowledge of their faith and to guide them in the practice of their religion. Vijaya Dharma Suri himself contributed to its columns a series of articles in Gujarati under the title of Dharma-Deshana or religious instruction. These have been collected and published in a book-form under the same title, and they give to the reader an easy and popular exposition of Jainism.
He had deep interest in archæology and history. During his pregrenations, whenever he visited ancient Jaina places and temples Vijaya Dharma Suri, thought of publishing accounts about them. With this end in view he used to collect rich and valuable materials, both manuscript and epigraphical. As a result of his efforts in this direction, a monograph entitled Devakulapataka which gives an interesting sketch of the history of Delwada, a small village in Mewar, was published. The treatise contains texts of twenty-six inscriptions which throw much light on the antiquities of the village. The monograph is especially noteworthy for the painstaking accuracy and the strict method with which it is written and for the erudite notes Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat