The first issue was published by German Jesuit missionary Father Hermanus Zurhausen from the Examiner Press, Bombay (now Mumbai) in January 1911.

[1] The publication moved to Anand in 1926 where it is being published by Gujarati Sahitya Prakash Society.

The cost of the first issue was two paisa which now increased to ₹ 100 annually.

[2][3] The monthly published its centenary issue in December 2010, the second ever Gujarati magazine after Buddhiprakash.

[2] The February 2012 issue published image of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus holding a can of beer and cigarette.