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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
public. Various liberal and generous-minded benefactors have come forward with magnanimous offers. The Library has been enriched with several very fine collections of manuscripts, every one of them rare, valuable and very interesting. In 1921, the Library was enriched with the "Jambunatha Bhat Lindagai collection". In 1922, the Library received other valuable collections of rare interest known as the "Kagalkar" and the "Patanga Avadhuta" collections. Besides these, the Tyagaraja Svami collection, the Subrahmanya Sastri collection, Subrahmanya Rao collection, Ramacandra Ganapati collection, Nilakantha Sastri collection, Devasankara Tawker collection, Gopalakṛṣṇa Devalekar collection and Kraṇāji Metha collection-all are of great and rare value.
The manuscripts in the Tanjore Library are either on palm leaf or on paper. They are of varying value and come from various sources. These manuscripts are in more than eleven distinct alphabets. On the whole one may easily say that the total number of manuscripts in this Library is likely to exceed 80,000, of which the Sanskrit manuscripts alone are sure to exceed 25,600.
Besides these manuscripts there are also a number of books and manuscripts in almost all the Indian and European langua ges and on almost all branches of human knowledge. Special mention may here be made of the books and manuscripts in Telugu, Tamil, Marathi and English on account of their number and importance.
Dr. Burnell issued what he modestly styled "A classified Index to the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Palace at Tanjore,"
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