Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

Author(s): Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya Mumbai
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay

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(3) Samgrahani-sutra - d. 1637 A.D. in the Prince of Wales
Museum (4) Uttarādhyayana-sútra, (copied at Anjāra in Kaccha) - c.
1640-50 A. D.
Group V
(1) Upadeśamālā Bālāvabodha - dated V. S. 1765 = 1708 A. D. (2) Jambūdvipaprajñapti - Prameyaratnamañjūşă-ţikā, (donated
at Bālotara V. S. 1749 = 1692 A.D. but) dating from circa
1606 A. D. (3) Krsnaveli - c. 1650 A.D. (4) Naladavadanti-Rāsa (incomplete) in Muni Sri Punyavijaya's
collection - undated, c. seventeenth century. (5) Ardrakumāra-Rāsa - late 17th cent. A. D. (6) Samgrahaņi-sútra - dated V. S. 1707 = 1650 A. D. (painted at
Navharanagara, probably in old Bikaner State). (7) Undated Samgrahani - (c. 1685 A.D.) in Muni Śri Punya
vijaya's collections.
Group VI
(1) Canda-Rāsa (copied at Vyāghrasenapura, probably in Gujarat)
- V. S. 1712 = 1655 A. D. (2) Canda-Rāsa (painted at Surat) - d. V. S. 1716 = 1659 A. D. (3) Devimāhātmya (from Surat)- 1776 A. D., Collections of the
Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay. (4) Haribala Caupãi, d. V. S. 1744 = 1687 A. D. (copied at Sri
Dhāragrāma).
Group VII
(1) Sri Candrarājāno Rāsa (Late Deccani-copied at Poona) -1812
A. D.
The classified list of new documents also shows the material which U. P. Shah has been able to assemble. It contains perhaps the earliest dated paper manuscript of the Kalpa-sūtra and Kalakakatha. Another significant point about the early group is that many of the manuscripts are dated and some of them also bear the names of the places where they were painted. A similar search for illustrated manuscripts which are dated and/or which bear place-names would help us to have a better understanding of the age and provenance of different styles of painting.