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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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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 "Jambupātha Bhatta Ländagai collection." In 1922, the Library received ther valuable collections of rare interest known as the 'Kagalkar" and the “Pataiga Avadhūta" collections. Besides these, the Tyāgarāja Avami collec tion, the Subrahmagya Sāstri collection, Subrabmanya Rao col. lection, Rămacendra Ganapati collection, Nilakantha sāstri collec. tion, Devasankara Tawker collection, Gopalakrada Devalekar collection and Kroņiji Metha collection-all are of great and rare
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The manusoripts 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 dig. tinct alphabets. On the whole one may easily say that the total number of manuscripts in this Library is likely to exceed 80,000 of whieh the Sanskrit manuscripts alone are sure to exceed 25,500.
Besides these manuscripts there are also a noinber 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, Mahrathi and English on account of their number and importance.
Dr. Barnell issued what he modestly styled "A classified Index to the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Palace at Tanjore."
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