________________ DI VAISHALI PRAKRIT JAIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE : IDEALS AND ACHIEVEMENTS YUGAL KISHORE MISHRA M. A. (Philosophy, Sanskrit, Prakrit & Jainology), B, L. Incubation The idea of a Research Institute for Vaishali was first mooted in 1952 at the 8th Vaishali Festival held on April 7, 1952. One of the resolutions passed at the festival recommended to the Jain community and the Government of Bihar to start the Vaishali Prakrit Jain Institute at Vaisbali, and, set up a sub-committee consisting of Dr. A. S: Altekar, Shri J. C. Mathur, Prof. Yogendra Mishra, Dr. Nathmal Tatia, Shri Lalapji Jain, Shri Nemi Chandra Shastri, Prof. Dalsukhbhai Malvaniya and Shri Jagannath Prasad Sah for the purpose. The Education Minister to the Government of Bibar, Shri Badri Nath Verma, especially supported this idea at the festival at which the Chief Guest was Shri K. M. Munshi, Food Minister to the Government of India. In due course of time, the subcommittee submitted an exhaustive and detailed schemel in printed form for setting up the proposed institute to the Government of Bibar. Two separate appeals were also issued on behalf of Dr. Srikrishna Sinha (Chief Minister of Bihar and President of the Vaisali Sangha) and Sri R. R. Diwakar Governor of Bihar) pleading for the sponsoring of the project of an Institute of Post-graduate Studies and Research in Prakrit and Jaipology at Vaishali and inviting the culturally-minded persons, 1. 2. A Scheme for the Vaisali Institute of Post-graduate Studies and Research in Prakrit and Jainology, Vaisali Sangha, 1952, hereinafter cited as 'the Vaigali Sangha brochure of 1952.' The one-page Appeal from Dr. Sri Krishna Simba, the Chief Minister of Bibar' and the two-page Appeal from Sri R.R. Diwakar, the Governor of Biba:' were distributed along with the Vaisali Sangha brochure of 1952 cited earlier.
