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Jaina Grantha Bhandārs in Rajāsthån.
EARLIEST AMD LATEST MANUSCRIPT.
The manuscript of Pancāsti Käya, a famous work of Acarya Kunda Kunda written in Prākrit is the earliest one. This was copied in Vikram Samvat 1329 10. in 1272 A.D. This was written in Delhi which was called Yoginipur at that ume The copyrst of this manuscript and Uttarpurāna, the earliest manuscript in Amer Šāstra Bhandār was one and the same The latest manuscript is 'Dharmopdeša Ratnamālā' of Duli Canda written in Sarwat 1964 (1907 A D.) by the writer himself,
This shows that upto 50 years back there was a continuous effort of copying and placing the manuscripts in the Grantha Bhandāl.
CENTRE OU SCHOLARS
There is a very good collection of the manuscripts written in oriental as well as in Hindi and Rājasthāni languages This collection pertains to books written by Jaina and non-Jaina authors Works written by Jaina authors deal with various subjects pertaining to religion such as Sidhắnta, Pūjā Pratisthā and Vidhān and secular subjects like Purana, Kāvya. Kathä, short Kavya called carita, Philosophy, and scientific subjects like grammer, Prosody, Liricography, Jyotis 1, and Ayurveda. Works written by non-Jaina authors pertain mainly to Kāvya, Grammei Ayurveda Jyotisa and sexualogy etc There are 13 manuscripts of Raghuvansa, Kavya written hy Kavi Kalıdāsa and two Samskrit commentaries on Kirātājuniya of Bhārvi. Besides this there is a good collection of Hindi works written by Gorakhanāth and his followers, Kabīrdäsa, Bihārı, Keśava, Vrinda and several of others. Books written in Apabhraíía are in abundance. Literature of Swayambhū (9th Century), Puspadanta (10th Century) Vīra (11th Century) Nayanandı & Radhu etc are also in the collection There are two samskrit commentaries on Jambu Swāmi Cariya and Pauma Cariya which are not available in other Bhandārs. There is one manuscript of Ādipurāna ot Puspadanta which is profusely illustrated and only one manuscript of its kind throughout India This illustrated manuscript was copied in Vikram Saṁwat 1597 (1540 A.D) Delhi, The manuscript has 558 coloured pictures fully based on the text The Harivansa purāna of Dhaval, a famous scholar of 10th Century is also available in this Bhandar. This manuscript has not been tound so far in any other Bhandar of Rajasthan. There is a rich collection of Hindi works also. Cauvisi Gita, a Hindi work composed in Saswat 1371 (1314 A.D.) by Kavi Delha has been discovered in this Sástia Bhandar
We may mention here that the collection of the Gutakās of this Bhandār is also of great importance. Some small works of Samskrit and Hindi find a good
