It so happened that a few days after Papa had received the Municipal notice, his old friend Balasaheb Pant Pratinidhi, who had succeeded his father as Raja of Aundh, visited Belgaum along with his Diwan Jacob Bapuji. The purpose of their visit was to attend a meeting of the Masonic Lodge, of which Papa was also a member. As the three of them walked to the meeting, Papa told Rajasaheb of his predicament, explaining that once his factory building was pulled down by the Municipality, he had nowhere to go.

Rajasaheb listened to Papa, whom he had admired ever since their first meeting in Bombay. He was convinced of my father's ability and of his devotion to his business. Jacob Bapuji's opinion of Papa was the same.

Addressing my father as he used to when he was a student in Bombay, Rajasaheb said , "Master, I can give you all the land you want - in my State ; and all the money you need to establish your factory there. I should like you to make up your mind before I leave Belgaum tomorrow." Papa was deeply moved by Rajasaheb's offer, endorsed as it was by Jacob Bapuji's "Master, this offer comes from the Raja, not from the young student and Prince you knew in Bombay. I think you should accept". Yet he controlled his sense of profound gratitude sufficiently to reply, "Please allow me to place this before my brother and my colleagues which I will do at once."