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Rabindra Narayan GноSH-India's Literary Wealth: A connected story of her Manuscript Libraries: Some valuable informations from a Mysore correspondent. (DSM, vi, 1910, Pp. 1-3). (see No. 469).
Manuscript libraries in Southern India:
(a) Jain libraries: (1) An ancient Jain matt in Müḍabidri near the west coast of the Canara District, Madras Presidency, contains a very rich collection of manuscripts. Here are found the only surviving single copies of valuable books. (2) At Śravana Belgola, Mysore State, below the hill on which stands the statue of Gommatesvara, there is a Jain monastery containing a large, valuable and wellpreserved collection of manuscripts, mostly in palmyra leaves, in the Päli, Sanskrit, Kannada and Tamil languages. (3) In another Jain monastery in Mysore State, at Humcha, we find a large collection of manuscripts. (4) Pandit Padmaraja and other Jain pandits possess, more or less collections of manuscripts.
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N. D. MIRONOV-Notes Jaines I. Siddharsi. (Bull., Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, 6th Series, v, Pt. 1, 1911, Pp. 349-354). (In Russian).
Notes Jaines II. Nyāyāvataratippaṇ de Devabhadra. (Bull, Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, 6th Series, v, Pt. 1, 1911, Pp. 501-508). (In Russian).
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Jain Education International
L. P. TESSITORI-Two Jaina versions of the story of Solomon's Judgment, in Gujarati and Jaipuri. (IA, xlii, 1913, Pp. 148-152).
The version in the commentary of the Nandisutta-The version in the Antarakathasamgraha.
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Arthur A. MACDONELL-A History of Sanskrit Literature. London, 1913.
P. 25. The older tradition of both the Buddhist and the Jain religions ignored Sanskrit entirely, using only the popular dialects for all purposes-In course of time both the Buddhists and the Jains endeavoured to acquire a knowledge of Sanskrit,
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