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thc MSS which is included in their religious practice A Jaina Shrine, particularly the temple was essentially attached with a Såtlra-Bhandara, bccausc thc Jina. Jinavāni and Jinaguru were considered the objects of worship. Almost all the Jaisha temples are invariably accompanied with the Säsira-Bhandaras During the time of some of the Mughal cmpcrors likc Mahmud Gaznai? 1025 A D ) and Aurangzeb ( 1661-1669 A.D ) when the temples a new awakening for prcscrvation of thc temples and Sastra started and much interior places wirc chooson for the purpose A new sect of the Bhallarahas and Caityavasis emerged among the Jaina ascetics who undertook with cnthusiasm thc activity of building up the Sastra Bhandaras As a result, many MSS collcctions came up all over India The collcctions of Sravan abclagola, Moodbidri and Humach in Karnataka, Patan in Gujrat, Nagaur, Ajmer, Jaipur in Raj asthan, Kolhapur in Maharastra, Agra in Uttar Pradesh and Delhiare well known. A good number of copies of important MSS were prepared and sent to different Sastra Bhandaras One can imagine how the copies of a works composed in South India could travel to North and West. And likewise works composed in North-West reached the Southern coast of India. A great number of Sanskrit, Prakrit and Apabbiamsa works were rendered into Kannadas Tamil and Malayalee Scripts and were transcribed on the Palm Leaf It is a historical fact that the religious enthusiasm was so high that Shāntammá, a pious Jaina lady, got prepared one thousand copies of Santipurāna, and distributed them among religious people. At a time when there were no printing facilities such efforts deserved to be considered of great s'gnificance.
The above efforts saved hundreds thousands MSS But along with the development of these new sects these social institutions became almost private properties This resulted into two unwanted developments viz 1) lack of preservation in many cases and 2) hardship in accessiblity Due to these two reasons the MSS remained locked for a long period for safety, and consequently the valuable treasure remained unknown to scholars. The story of the Si ldhanta Sastra Satkhan lāgama is now well known. It is only one example
With the new awakening in the middle or last quarter of the Nineteenth Century some enlightened Jaina householdeis came out
