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great boon of the Gowrishankar Waterworks, on which six lakhs of rupees were spent. The Bhaunagar state also warmly pressed for railway communication with the See also:

CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent of See also:

India, and thus began a See also:

MOVEMENT

movement which has spread a network of railway lines over the See also:

peninsula of Kathiawar. The British See also:

government re-warded these many services of Gowrishankar with the distinction of C.S.I. in 1877. He helped to establish the Rajkumar See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College at See also:

RAJKOT

Rajkot, for the See also:

EDUCATION

education of native princes, and also the Rajasthanik See also:

Court, which, after settling innumerable disputes between the land-owning classes and the chiefs, has since been abolished. In 1879 Gowrishankar resigned See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office, and devoted himself to the study of the higher literature of that Vedanta See also:

PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy which through his whole See also:

LIFE

life had been to him a solace and a See also:

GUIDE (in Mid. Eng. gyde, from the Fr. guide; the earlier French form was guie, English " guy," the d was due to the Italian form guida; the ultimate origin is probably Teutonic, the word being connected with the base seen in O. Eng. witan, to know)

guide. In 1884 he wrote a See also:

WORK

work called 'Svarupanusandhan, on the See also:

union of the soul with Deity, which led to a See also:

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter of warm congratulation from Max See also:

Muller, who also published a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography of him.

In 1887 he put on the robe of the Sanyasi or ascetic, the See also:

FOURTH

fourth See also:

STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage, according to the See also:

HINDU

Hindu Shastras, in the life of the twice-born See also:

man, and in this manner passed the See also:

REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder of his life, giving above ten See also:

HOURS, CANONICAL

hours each See also:

day to Vedantic studies and See also:

HOLY

holy contemplation. He died, revered by all classes, in See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1892. See Javerital U. Yajnik, Gowrishankar Udayashankar (Bombay, 1889).

End of Article: VODEYSHANKAR, GOWRISHANKAR (1805-1892)

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