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Jaina Grantha Bhandars in Rajasthan.
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(92) GRANTHA BHANDAR OF JAIN TEMPLE ABHINANDANA SWAMI
The Sastra Bhandar of Abhinandana temple contains 368 manuscripts. Previously this temple was the seat of the Bhattarakas and there was a big collection of the manuscripts but most of the manuscripts were sold by the pupils of the Bhattarakas and several of them destroyed automatically. But still there is a good Karakandu Cariyu, an Apabhramsa Kavya collection of old manuscripts. written by some unknown author, is a rare work which has been discovered recently. The work describes the life of Karkandu, a king according to Jaina mythology. The manuscript is incomplete and in bad condition.
(93) GRANTHA BHANDAR OF MAHAVIRA TEMPLE
This temple remained the seat of scholars as the manuscripts preserved in the Grantha Bhandar are on the subjects like Siddhant, Purana Pūjā and Stotra etc. The total number of the manuscripts is 172. Most of the manuscripts are new. The manuscripts are in Hindi written in 18th and 19th centuries.
(94) GRANTHA BHANDAR OF JAINA TEMPLE NEMINATHA
This last Grantha Bhandar exists in the temple of Neminatha. This Bhandar was also important in the past. At present there are 223 manuscripts which But manuscripts of the same number had been are complete and in good condition. made incomplete. There is a manuscript copy of MADHAVĀNAL PRABANDHA written by Gokul son of Narsa in Samvat 1594 (1537 A.D). This is a very correct copy of the book which was copied in Samvat 1655 (1598 A.D). The manuscript of SINHASANA BATTIST is of 1654 (1597 A D) There is a Gutaka copied in Samvat 1641 (1584 A D) which contains several small works of VOCARAJA a famous Hindi poet of 16th century.
Thus in the Sastra Bhandars of Bundi city there are more than 1200 manuscripts which shows that Bundi was once a centre of literary activities. The old name by which it had been mentioned in the Samskrit and HindI works is VRINDAVATI.
(95) JAINA SARASWATI BHAWAN, JHĀLARĀPĀŢAN'
The Grantha Bhandar is called by the name of Ailaka Pannā Lal Digambara Jaina Saraswati Bhawan, Jhalarapatan. The Bhandar was established by late Śri Panna Lal recently. Before this. there was no Bhandar. Panna Lal himself collected
