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urele 37 શ્રી, હૈમ સારસ્વત સત્રની નોંધરૂપે લખાયેલ લેખ RESURRECTION OF THE JNANA-BHANDARS
AT PATAN
AND APPRECIATION OF THE WORK OF THE JAIN SAINT
HEMACANDRA It was more than half a century ago that Drs. PETERSON, BUEHLER, BHAU DAJI, BHANDARKAR and other oriental scholars carried on extensive searches, for the collection of all the available Mss. of old Sanskrit and Prakrit works at central places like Poona and Bombay where they could be easily available to research students. In the course of their itineraries Drs. PETERSON and BUEHLER had come to know that there were large collections of such Mss, in the private houses of some of the Jain inhabitants of Patan in North Gujarat, Although their attempts to persuade their
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