Hastprat Vidya ane Agam Sahitya

Author(s): Niranjana Vora
Publisher: Gujarat Vidyapith Ahmedabad

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Typology of Jain Manuscripts
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In Mewar, the Mahātmās were the scribes and their names appear in the colophons of Jain as well as nonjain manuscripts. Mahatma Hiranada was the scribe of a dated Ms. of Supāsanahāchariyam'o painted as Devakulavõiaka in A.D. 1422-23. In the 18th and 19th century a community of scribes known as Matheran was active in the Jodhpur-Bikaner area which was writing as well as illustrating the quikā MSS. on all subjects. A number of such manuscripts apear in almost all repositories of Jain Bhandaras.