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Jaina Grantha Bhandārs in Rajasthan.
of commentary on Tattvärtha Sūtra' in Hindi prose is a rare one. This was composed in Vikrama Samvat 1935 (1878 A D.) by Sri Guvarsingh of Kumher.
SĀSTRA BHANDĀRS OF DEEG TOWN
Deeg which is called a city of tountains is 25 miles from Bharatpur City It was an old capital of the Bharatpur Statc. There are three Šāstra Bhandārs, out of which one is in the old Decg and the rest two are in New Doeg.
(38) SASTRA BHANDAR OF PANCAYATI MANDIR--NEW DEEG
There are 81 manuscripts in the collection of this Bhandar Except a few onc all the manuscripts are in Hindi written in 18th and 19th century Bide, the manuscripts on eligion, there are manuscripts on Gram na and Medicine. There is an original manuscript of MALLINĀTHA CARITA translated in Flindi by Sewa Rama Patni who belonged to this city He composed this work in 1793 AD here
(39) SĀSTRA BHANDAR OF BADI PANCĀYATI-DEEG
There was a very old collection of the manuscripts in the Grantha Bhandar of Pancayati Mandir-Deeg but due to the imms-imanagement it fell into a sorry state Even now the manuscripts are not systematically arranged. I also came to known that several manuscripts were taken away by the scholars of the various places and were never returned
At present there are only 56 manuscripts which are complete and the rest are incomplete and in wretched condition. The manuscripts were copied in the 16th 17th and 18th Centuries The earliest dated manuscript is BHAGVATI ĀRĀDHANA which was written in the year 1511 (1454 A.D) in Māndalgarh Except this there also copies of SADĀ DARŠANA SAMUCCAYA of Rajahansa in Sanskrit,
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