Virchand Gandhi

Virchand Gandhi

Virachand R. Gandhi (1864 - 1901) represented Jains at the first World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893. He was probably the first Jain to arrive in the USA and his statue stands in the Jain temple at Chicago. At 21, Gandhi became the first honorary secretary of the Jain Association of India in 1885. He worked to abolish the tax levied on Jain pilgrims to Mount Shatrunjay, Gujarat, India. He died at age 37. [ [http://virchandgandhi.blog.com/ Virachand Gandhi] ]

In 1891 Mr. Boddam, an English man, started a factory for slaughtering animals near Mount Sametshikhar, a holy place of Jain pilgrimage. Virchand Gandhi stayed in Calcutta for six months, learned Bengali, prepared his case against the factory, and successfully got the factory closed.

He was contemporary to Swami Vivekanand. Herbert Warren studied Jainism under him and adopted the Jain religion. Warren published a book on Virchand Gandhi's lectures titled "Herbert Warren's Jainism".

References

* "The Systems of Indian Philosophy", 1970 EnglishSpeeches and Writings of Shri Virchand R. Gandhi, Editor - Dr. K. K. Dixit, Publisher - Shri Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya Bombay

* Savirya-Dhyan first published, Gujarati second edition, 1989 GujaratiAuthor- Acharya Shri ShubhachandradevTranslator - Shri Virchand R. Gandhi Commentary - Anandnandan Lalan Complied - Shri Pannalal R. ShahPublisher - The Jain Association of India Bombay

* "Selected speeches of V. R. Gandhi", 1964 EnglishSelected speeches taken from books 1, 2, and 3. Publisher - Vallabh Smarak Nidhi, Bombay

External links

* [http://virchandgandhi.blog.com/ True Re-discovery of Virchand Raghav Gandhi,Great Legend]


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