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Kundakunda Jnanpitha was founded in 1987 under the Digambara Jaina Udasina Ashram Trust inspired by Shri DeoKumar Singh Kasliwal. Today, under the guidance of Dr.Anupam Jain and through the support of the local Jaina community the Kundakunda Jñanapītha has established a well stocked library (over 24,000 texts) of Jaina related resources and also a large collection antiquated texts. Currently in construction is a museum (Samskrti bodha-Kalā Vithikā) for Jaina manuscripts and relicas of Jaina sculptures. A section about missing links of Jaina History will be devoted in it. As a visiting scholar to Indore I have been will received by the Jaina community, especially the Kasliwal (Dr. Ajit Kumar Kasliwal) and Bobra (Surajmal) family, and have amle opportunity to explore the available resources. With the addition of a few updated sources to complement their comprehensive collection of sūtras, agamas, and Hindi texts the Kundakunda Jnanpitha will definitely contribute in incresing the knowledge of Jaina studies.
For the above reasons the Kundakunda Jñanapitha will only expand in the future
Front view of Library and hopefully attract more scholars to Indore in an effort to study Jainism. In connection with a place of learning this organization also publishes a quarterly research journal, the Arhat Vacana, of which 74 publications have been produced under the editorship of Dr. Anupam jain.
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Three issues of Arhat Vacana
Arhat Vacana, 19 (3), 2007
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