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288 JAINA GAZETTE.
(October Jodhpur, Barwan, Philodi, Limbdi, Ujjain and Delhi, etc. Most of the Digambar Jain granthas were purchased in 1875-76 from Jaipur. It is sad to mention that most of the granthas both Digambar and Swetambar were sold in original without a copy being kept. Some of these manuscripts appear to have been written so far back as the gth Century A. D.
Some books are in a very bad condition. A number of pages are missing or are in pieces. Still we should feel grateful to the benign Government for purchasing them; else they would have been by this time eaten up by insects. It is due to their kindness that we can have the good luck of even seeing them now. It is very likely that some of these granthas are available only in this library and nowhere else. Swetambar Jain Conference has published a list of books, the price of which is Rs. 3 per copy. It has given a remark against several books that they are to be found in this library and nowhere else. These rare books will be of special value in finding out what additions and alterations have been made in the original granthas.
The library has several big commentories on most of the 45 Swetambar Agams. Of the Digambar granthas, it contains Gomatsar with a commentary, Triloksar, Sarwarthsiddhi, Tatwarth Vartika Alankar, Mulachar with Vasunandi's commentary on it, Parmatma Prakash Vivaran, Bhavadi Prabhirita, Tatwarth Sar, Samayasar, Nayamsar, Adipuran with Chulika, Pragyapti, Darshan Ratnakar, Dharmamirit with commentary, Jain Vyakarna (Panch-vastu, Mahabirta, Shabdarnava Chandrika), Pramanprameya Karika, Prameya Ratnamala, Prameya Kamalmartanda, Apta Mimansa with commentary, Asht-shati, Ashta-sahasri, and other important books.
A copy of Shabdarnava Chandrika by Somadeva is on palm leaves. It contains 280 pages and yet it is said to be incomplete and in pieces. Of Darshan-ratnakar by Indranandi Acharya, there are only 94 folios, from 234 to 338.
The Sanskrit commentary on Nayamsar of Kunda-swami by Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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