Catalogue of the manuscripts of Patan Jaina Bhandara
- Type
- Descriptive catalogue
- Languages
- Gujarati
- Manuscripts
- 23,241
- Collections
- Jaina Bhandara, Patan
- Sources
- Attested in:
- Biswas 1998 no. 0811
- Library of Congress (LCCN 92910609)
- Open Library OL309150W
Description (Biswas 1998)
Part I-II (Detailed catalogue of 20,035 paper mss. preserved in the Hemacandracarya Jaina Jnanamandir... (12,402,2 art plates; 222 p.) [Last entry in the catalogue (pt.II, p.222) is no. 20,008.] Part.III (Alphabetical index of all the 20,035 paper mss. preserved in the Hemacandracarya Jaina Jnanamandira...). - 547 p., 1 art plate. Part IV (Detailed catalogue of 3206 paper mss. preserved in the Bhabhapada Bhandara at Patan; catalogue of the palm-leaf mss. of the Bhandara of Sanghavi pada, (now preserved in the Hemacandracarya Jaina Jnanamandira at Patan); catalogue of palm leaf mss. of the Bhandara of Khetaravasi pada; catalogue of palm leaf mss. of Sanghabhandara etc. (preserved in the Hemacandracarya Jaina Jnanamandira at Patan); with alphabetical index.) - 20, 304 p., 1 art plate. Description in tabular form of 23,241 paper mss. and 1489 palm leaf mss. preserved in all the (19) Jaina Bhandaras of Patan. In addition, Pt. IV also lists 290 brittle palm leaf mss. of Sanghavina Padano Bhandar (now merged with the Jnanamandira) and 58 stolen palm leaf mss. of Khetaravasi Padano Bhandara. Pt.I includes only 14,789 paper mss. which were catalogued by Muni Punyavijayaji. Presently collections of 17 Jaina Bhandaras have been amalgamated with Hemacandracarya Jaina Jnanamandira. Out of 19 Bhandaras only 2 Bhandaras (1) Bhabhana Padano Bhandara and (2) Khetaravasi Padano Bhandara exist separately. All mss. of these two Bhandaras are described in Pt.IV.
From S. C. Biswas, Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues (Delhi, 1998), no. 0811, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.