Bhandarkar Report 1904
BHANDAKAR REPORT on the search of Prākṛit and Saṃskṛit manuscripts 1904 [42 of 69]
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42. On the 3rd of January just as I had made up my mind to leave Jaipur the next day for Ajmer I received the letter from the Political Agent, Western Rajputana States, referred to above in connection with Jesalmir, in which I was informed that there was a State collection and two or three private collections in Jodhpore. I therefore first visited Jodhpore. Besides the State collection, called Pustak-Prakash, I there examined two collections, one of them belonging to a Śvetāmbara Jaina temple. The State collection though a good one was in perfect disorder, and it was not possible to easily get at such of the manuscripts as I wished to see. The Bhandar in the Jaina temple on the other hand was in very good order. The third collection was but the ruins of what must have been at one time a very good collection. Many of the manuscripts were incomplete and in disorder.
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