Development And Impact Of Jainism In India And Abroad

Author(s): Gunvant Barvalia
Publisher: Arham Spiritual Center

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JAIN MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
(b) Steps to Liberation, ed. by J. van Alphen, Antwerp, 2001. An exhibition organized in Belgium in 2000-2001, including several illustrated manuscript pages owned by private collectors.
(c) Victorious Ones ed. by Phyllis Granoff, New York, 2009 is the catalogue of an exhibition which took place at the Rubin Museum New York in 2009 where only items kept in America were shown.
Digambara works are rather rare outside India. One of the most noteworthy collection is that preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire of Strasbourg (France) which was collected systematically. Otherwise, an illustrated mansucript of Raïdhu's Jasaharacariu in Apabhrana is kept at the Wellcome Trust and an illustrated manuscript of Gangadása's Adityaväravratakatha is preserved at the British Library.
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