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Importance of The Jaina Grantha Bhandars.
Though it was an important centre there is no Grantha Bhandar at present in its temple, when its adjacent towns such as Dani, Rajmahal and Uniyärä have some sort of manuscript collections. It is possible that the manuscript written in the village might have been removed by the Bhattarakas to some other places.
3, BAIRATH
It is a town 41 miles to the north of Jaipur City. It was the capital of Virăța Raja, King of the Matsya-deśa where five Pandavas lived in hiding for one year. The Pandu hill at Bairath which has a cave called Bhimgupta, contains an inscription of Asoka. In the 16th century, there was here a great Hindi scholar called Pandit Rajmall He composed Latt Samită on the request of Sähu Phamen. At the same time the elder brother of Sahu Phamen constructed a big Jaina temple..
तत्रायस्य वरो सुतो वरगुरणो न्योताह्न सघाधिपो ।
येनैते ज्जिन मन्दिरस्फुटमिह मोत गमप्येद्भुत ।। वराटनगरे निधाय विधिवत् पूजाश्च बह्वयः कृतः । अत्रामुत्र सुखमद: स्वयशसः स्तमसमारोपितः ॥
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-Latt Sahhită p. 73
And in the same temple Bhattaraka Somasena composed Rama Purana' in Sak Samvat 1656 in which he described the town in the following lines:---
वैराटविषये रम्ये जितुरनगरे बरे मन्दिरे ।
पार्श्वनाथस्य सिद्ध ग्रन्थ शुभे दिने ||
Manuscript of Gyanarnava was copied in the year 1619 A. D. while Balbhadra Purina of Raidhu Kavi, a work of Apabhraṁśa language, was copied in the year 1673 A.D, by Sri Prema Rama on the request of Kusal Singh. The first manuscript is in the Sastra Bhandar of Jaina Tholia temple Jaipur while the latter one is in the Sastra Bhandar of Jaina temple Pățodi of Jaipur.
4. BUNDI
Bundi is an old town of Rajasthan and is situated 20 miles west of Kotah. Bandi was the capital of former Bündī State. The area of Kotäh, Bundi and
:. Amer Sastra Bhandar, Jaipur.
