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1914.] JAINA GAZETTE.
287 make this great undertaking a great success? What else can demonstrate and secure the immortality of Jaina teachings more effectively than the publishing broadcast of the learning of Eternity of which our Tirthankaras left the Jainas as mere trustees and căstodians. Let us discharge our duty. Let us help the sacred cause, by sending money, manuscripts, suggestions, and other offers of help and co-operation.
J. L. JAINI, M. A.,
Bar.-at-Law, President, All-India Jaina Association.
JAIN BOOKS, IN THE LIBRARY OF THE DECCAN COLLEGE, POONA.
This library contains a very large collection of manuscript books on Vedas, history, science, medicine, poetry, lexicography and other subjects. These books were collected at a great cost and labour extending over 16 years from 1868 to 1884. A detailed catalogue of 1888, containing 540 pages, came to my hand very recently. The books are Labulated in the chronological order in which they were obtained. The catalogue gives the number of pages, the lines on each page, and the words in each line regarding almost every book in the library. It also mentions the condition of each book-complete or incomplete, whole or torn, written on palm leaves or paper. The author and the subject are also mentioned. An index to the whole is appended. The leading men among those who have made this valuable collection are Doctors Buhler, Kielhorn, Bhandarkar and Peterson.
It is a list of 6,856 books, of which 1,501 are Jain granthas, 1,245 belong to the Swetambar Sect and the rest to the Digambar. Besides these there are a few Jain granthas contained in other lists. In some cases one number is given to a number of books in one volume. Taking these facts into consideration it may be said that the library contains about 1,600 Jain books, i. e., about one-fourth of it is a Jain library. These books have been purchased from Jaipur,
Bikaner, Bhatviar, Kashmir, Patan, Surat, Jesalmer, Rander, Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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