Jain Siddhant Bhawan | |
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25°33′44″N 84°40′24″E / 25.56215989996678°N 84.67329461826309°E | |
Location | Arrah, India |
Type | Oriental Library |
Established | 1903 |
Collection | |
Items collected | Books, manuscripts, paintings |
Building details | |
General information | |
Status | Completed |
Architectural style | Jain |
Country | India |
Construction started | 1903 |
Other information | |
Parking | No |
Jain Siddhant Bhawan (also known as Shree Dev Kumar Jain Oriental Library) is a Jain Oriental library in Arrah. [1] It has a good collection of old palm leaf manuscripts. [2]
It was established by Dev Kumar Jain in 1903. One day he saw a person selling old and rare books; to save those books he bought them and started collecting old and rare books. [3] Nearly four decades ago it started coming under Magadh University and later after the establishment of Veer Kunwar Singh University it was associated with it. [4]
It has a great collection of 25,000 printed books and 8,000 handwritten books in various languages like Bhojpuri, Tamil, Gujarati, Pali, Magadhi Prakrit, English, Kannada, etc. [5] [6]