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jnana-bhandara

ज्ञानभण्डार jnana-bhandara

A 'treasury of knowledge': a manuscript library, especially the Jain repositories that preserved very old palm-leaf manuscripts.

Where this term appears

  • Leaf and Bark Treatise

    Among the most important were the Jain jnana-bhandaras , the knowledge-treasuries, where a religious community held the act of preserving texts as a sacred duty.

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