Sramana 2003 01

SR No.: 525048
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shivprasad
Publisher: Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi
Publication Year: 2003
Total Pages: 138
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Sramana, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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Catalogues of Jaina Manuscripts : 79
etc. usually prepare first a hand list of a collection and then publish the same as catalogue at a later date. Apart from institutional and personal catalogues there are several catalogues published covering a region, state or country.
The catalogues are also prepared language wise e.g. catalogue of Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujrati, Kannada etc. All the catalogues, containing information on the Jaina works, may not be termed as Jaina catalogues. Some catalogues devote a volume or two to the Jaina manuscripts while others include the Jaina works like others in alphabetical order. All the catalogues, herein, have been arranged under one alphabetical order by names of their locations, followed by the names of the institution / collection, where the manuscripts were located.
Klaus Ludwig Janet in his An Annotated Bibliography of the Catalogues of Indian Manuscripts, Part 1 (1965) presented a detailed study of the development of manuscript cataloguing both in India and Europe, beginning from Albrecht Weber's Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in Berlin (1853) followed by Theodore Aufrecht's Catalogue of the Bodleian Library's Sanskrit Manuscripts (1859). Janet also followed this geographical principle for arranging the catalogues in his bibliography. Coming to the beginning of the compilation of the list or catalogue of Jaina manuscripts, Bṛhaṭṭippaṇikā, dated AD 1383, providing the short descriptions of about 600 Jaina manuscripts, may be treated as the earliest catalogue in India The most comprehensive and exhaustive work, in this regard, Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues, is by Subhasha C. Bisvasa (Delhi 1998). He also mentioned the number of manuscripts; each catalogue deals with, sometimes recording the number even language-wise. Bisvasa followed Janet's pattern. The author of this article is benefited significantly by the hard work put in by Mr. Bisvasa, in bringing out his work. In conformity with his pattern in deciding the place names the same form has been adopted as appeared on the title pages of the catalogues or documents. In case, more than one