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Jaina Grantha Bhandars in Rajasthan
Thansingh in his "Subudhi Prakāša" wrote the foilowing description of Amor City :
तामधि प्रवाति पूरसार, चौगिरदा परबत प्रधिकार । वस्तो तल ऊपरी सांधनी, ज्यो दाडिम बोजन तै बनी ।। साको जैसिध नामा भूप, सूरजवम विष जु अनूप । न्यायवत बुधिवत विमाल, परजापालक दीनदयाल ।
Bhattaraka Surendra Kiru wrote Adityavár Kathă a Hindi poem in the year 1687 A.D, a manuscript of which is preserved in the Sāstra Bhandār of Jaina Tample Badhicand. The other Bhattārakas Jagat Kirti and Devendra Kiti were also great lovers of literature and some manuscripts which were got written on the initiative of these Bhattārakas are preserved in the Amer såstra Bhandar, Jaipur.
Nand Rama was a non-Jaina poet. He wrote a Paccisi in the year 1667 A D. in the Amer City. He gave his own description in the following lines :
72 727 aarafa 9111 मूत बलगम गोत है रावत, मत है कृष्ण उपामी ॥२४॥
Amer remained the centre of Bhattarakas for a long time. The first who established the Bhattáraka Gadi in the year 1665 A. D. was Surendra Kirti' and the other two Bhațțärakas sat on this Gadi also in Amer.
2. Ā VĀN
It is an old town in the Tonk District Previously it was a Jägir town. In the sixteenth century this place was a literary centre of the Jainas. Varanga Carita of Bhajtáraka Vardhamana Deva was copied in the year 1527 A.D In the year 1536 there had been a great Pratisthā ceremony of Jaina Tirthankar Lord Neminátha under the guidance of Mandalacarya Dharmacandra. There is a big inscription in Jaina temple of Maharaja (Surya Sena of Solanki dynasty. In it the names of the two princes namely Prathvi Rija and Purana Malla have been mentioned. On & small hill near town, three statues of Bhattaraka Prabha Candra, Jina Candra and Dharma Candra, were erected.
1. Bhattaraka Paavalı--Amer Sastra Bhandar, Jaipur.
2. Amer Sastra Bhandar, Jaipur.
