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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
between 1178 and 1880. Between 1880 and 1918 for very nearly forty years, the Library has been the victim of many an outrage. Those who were in possession gave out on loan pory many manuscripts which were never returned. And many more somehow or other, found themselves into Libraries other than at Tanjore. Dr. Burnell's catalogue is very useful to us to trace out lost manuscripts, which are never likely to come back to us. Our logses are probably far more; for even Dr. Burnell's admirable catalogue was by no means a complete catalogue of all that existed. For, where he mentions a single work in a bundle we are able to-day to trace two or more works in the same bundle.
The committee appointed by the Government of Madras took charge early in 1919. Since then they have been busily pushing forward the work of revising and preparing a fresh catalogue of all the works now in the Library according to the latest scientific methods. Each work is described in detail in a cardindex form which contains all the necessary particulars.
In 1920 a catalogue of printed books in French, Latin, Italian and Greek was published. In 1926 three volumes of a catalogue of Tamil mauscripts in the Library were published. From the year 1924 a catalogue of Marătha manuscripts and books is being prepared; the first volume was published in 1928. These are now on sale and can be had from the Seeretary of the Library.
From an academic point of vi9w the Library pos668B some
very interesting specimens of literary and artistic importance.
These are
Objects of interest on paper.
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