Atmadharma magazine - Ank 364
(Year 31 - Vir Nirvana Samvat 2500, A.D. 1974)
(simplified iso15919 transliteration).

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amārā sonagaḍhamān maṅgal – mahotsav
āṅgaṇīye avasar ānandanā

* poṣh vad terase ek mumukṣhubhāī bahāragāmathī sonagaḍh āvyā. āvatāmvent
chārekor harṣhabharī dhamāl dekhīne āshcharyathī pūchhyun–bhāī, ā badhun shun chhe? shun
āje kāī maṅgal utsav chhe!
–hā bhāī! āje to kesarachhāṇṭī kaṅkotarī mokalāy chhe, temān gurudev “ karīne
maṅgaḷ kare chhe......teno ā utsav chhe.
* shenī chhe e kaṅkotarī?
le, enān ḍholanagārān to varasathī vāgī rahyā chhe, te shun hajī tamane nathī
sambhaḷāyā?–ā to paramāgam–mandirano mahotsav āvyo chhe....ne phāgaṇ sud
terasanun mūrat chhe.
* em! paramāgamamandirano mahotsav āvī gyo!
jī hā....have to gājate–vājate ekadam najīk āvī pahoñchyo chhe.
* tyāre to paramāgam–mandir paṇ taiyār thaī gayun hashe!
are, taiyār to evun majānun thaī gayun chhe ke enī adbhut shobhā to tame
sonagaḍh āvīne josho tyāre āshcharya pāmasho.
* utsavanī taiyārī paṇ chālatī hashe!
hā, jāṇe ākhun sonagaḍh ja badalāī gayun hoy!–em badhī navarachanā thaī rahī
chhe. tamane thashe ke āpaṇun svādhyāyamandir shun āvaḍun moṭun hatun! ane varddhamān
mahāvīr prabhunā padhāravāthī ‘suvarṇanagarīnī shobhā’ kevī vr̥uddhigat thaī gaī
chhe! te to tamane najare joye ja khyāl āvashe.
* vāh...! e to najare joshun....paṇ utsavamān shun thashe?
utsavamān to ghaṇun–ghaṇun thashe. juo, mahāvīraprabhunā pañchakalyāṇak thashe. gāme–
gāmanā ne desh–paradeshanā hajāro sādharmīo padhārashe; sheṭhashrī shāntiprasādajī
shāhūjīnā suhaste paramāgam–mandiranun udghāṭan thashe....pachhī temān moṭā moṭā