Vijaydharmasuri

Author(s): A J Sunavala
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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VII
THE YASHOVIJAYA JAINA PATHASHĀLĀ
AT BENARES
OPENING OF A SCHOOL AT MĀNDAL THE wonderful activities of Dharma Vijaya, however, did not end here. He fully realized that the results produced and the objects achieved would not last long, if the efforts which had brought them about were not continued. The best means to secure a continuation of these efforts was, in his opinion, to found an institution where students would not only receive an education imbued with the philanthropic principles of Jainism, but, on leaving it after finishing the course of their study, would also carry with them those principles and spread the knowledge of the same over all parts of India. With this end in view, he opened at Māndal in Gujarat, in the year 1902, a school on a small scale, and called it the Yashovijaya Jaina Pāthashālā, after the name of the great Jain polygraph of the seventeenth century.
DEPARTURE FOR BENARES It seemed, however, that an institution on the lines proposed could not prosper in a place like Mandal. He, therefore, thought it necessary to remove the College to a more central place, and selected for it