Jaina Granth Bhandars in Rajasthan

Author(s): Kasturchand Kasliwal
Publisher: Digambar Jain Atishay Kshetra Mandir

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Jaina Grantha Bhandirs in Rajasthan.
writing down the manuscripts and supplied them to various places. They were so enthusiastic that as soon as the learned scholar Pandit Todar Mal of Jaipur (18th Century) translated the voluminous Prakrit work of Gommatasar into Hindi prose, the manuscript copies of this work were got written down and supplied to important Bhandars of not only of Upper India: but of South India.also. In the later period they formed an institution where only copying out of manuscripts was done. These institutions existed in most of the important literary centres such as Amer, Sängāner, Caksu Todāraisingh, Nägaur, Jaisalmer, Dungarpur, Sāgwara, Sāmbhar etc. Such an institution was closed only 40 years ago in the Jaipur City after the system of printing came fully in vogue.
Soine of the names of the Srávakas out of the thousands are given here
under
(1) Dharnā Sāh under the preachings of Jina Bhadra Sūri presented some manuscripts written on palm leaves to the Bhandar of Jaisalmer
(2) Sa hajapal who lived in Ahmedabad wrote himself hundred manuscripts tor presentation to the Grantha Bhandārs
(3) Devasunder and Somasunder of Tapagacha undertook the restoration of Bhandārs at Pätan and Khambāt
Raidhu, the famous Apabhramsa poet wrote more than twenty books in Apabhrama language and every one of them was composed on the initiative of the Stavakas. The poet also presented his works to the Savakas alter giving their full description In his Dhani umnat Carita he gives tull story of Nautala Säh who requested him to compose the work Nattala Sāh was famous throughout India and
१. मवन १४८७ वर्षे श्रीग्वरतरगच्छे श्रीजिनगजमूरिपट्टालकार श्रीगच्छनायक श्रीजिनभद्र
मूरिगुरूणामुपदेशेन पुस्तकमतल्लिखित, शोषित च । लिखापित शाह धरणाकेन 4 afzan
श्रीमदहम्मदावादवास्तव्य संघनायक । सहजपालनामासीत्, पुण्यप्राग्भारमामुर ।।१५।। ज्ञानावरगणकर्मोत्थध्वान्तध्वविधित्सया । गुरूणामुपदेशेन, ससघपतिरादरात् ।।२३।। पदमाईप्रियापुत्रविमलदाससयुत. । अलेखयत् स्वय वृत्तरमुष्या: शतश: प्रतीन् ।।२४।।
Prasasti of Kalpa Kirnawala
3. A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Jain Bhandars of Pattan
P. 40
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Prasasti Sangrah of Āmei Sastra Bhandar, Jaipur.
P. 105.