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अनुसंधान - १७•55
All these information do certain historicaly important material. Such travelogues, though written by religious Acāryas from religious perspective, are very useful in writing history of different part of our country.
Some of these Jaina Munis, blessed with typical type of discipline and multitudious facilities, devoted most of their time to study and pursuing to write new treaties. Generations of Jaina monks have thus enriched the various branches of Bharatiya literature and in turn producing good material for reconstruction of our history according to their travelling capacities, training of learning, aptitude for research, instinct of tapping resources, test of seeing things and more so the temparament of acquiring knowledge and inquisitiveness to know.
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Special mention, may not be out of order, of the Jñāna Bhaṇḍāras. These Bhaṇḍāras, of course of Jaina faith, whether big or small, deserve to be looked upon as centres of sourcematerial and all the more as national wealth; for they have treasured and preserved old, valuable and rare manuscripts belonging to Jaina faith especially and of other faiths in general. If the Bhaṇḍāras are older than there is a greater possibility of obtaining a few more old and rare manuscripts. For the study of palaeography, calligraphy, development of paintings and contemporary society these valuable material are, no doubt, very useful and significant.
Keeping this background in view the purport here is to highlight the contribution made by Jaina Munis in making of our heritage by reviewing only one book i.e. Samaraicca Kahā (hence forth SK.)
Purpose of Dharmakathās
SK is a good Book on religious stories. Generally we
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