________________ NAV IR A CACH Ve 19: YT Ami THE GLIMPSES OF VAISATI MADHAV SHRIHARI ANEY Governor of Bihar 11 Bft II नित्यानुभूतनिजलाभनिवृत्ततृष्णः श्रेयस्यतद्रचनया चिरसुप्तबुद्धेः। लोकस्य यः करुणयाभयमात्मलोकमाख्यान्नमो भगवते ऋषभाय तस्मै // sucumia 4.6.881 Brothers and Sisters, I sincerely thank you for asking me to inaugurate the fourth session of the Vaisali Sammelan that is being convened under the auspices of the Vaisali Sangha. I wish to express my great satisfaction at your success in getting Maha pandit Rahul Sankrityayan, a scholar of Pali and Prakrit languages of international reputation, to preside over it. It is very appropriate that annual session of Vaisali Sammelan should be held at Vaisali simultaneouly with the celebration of the anniversary of Bhagavan Vardbamaoa Mahavira, the last of the Jain Tirthankaras, and, according to some scholars, the founder of Jainism. The orthodox school of Jains does not admit that Bhagavan Mabavira is the founder of that religion. "They claim for their religion a far more venerable antiquity: * Inaugural address delivered at the Fourth Vaisali Festival at Vaisali on April 21, 1948.
