KUNDAKUNDA JNANAPITHA
INDORE

 Kundakunda Jnanapitha (KKJ) is busy in catalouging of the MSS since 1999 in association with other organisations. During 26th Centenary Birth centenary celebration of Lord Mahavira A very Important Project has been launched by Ministry of Culture through National Archives of India. In process of decentralization of the work and taking effective co-operation of Jaina Social organizations. Five Nodal Agencies have been appointed by the National Archives of India in Feb.2003. Kundakunda Jnanapith is a one of the 5 Nodal Agencies who is assigned the work for Madhya Pradesh and Maharastra region together with the adjoin areas.

 Manuscripts are the important source of our traditional and useful knowledge. Jaina manuscripts are integral part of Indian manuscripts. In about 10,000 Jaina bhandars, about 10 lacs manuscripts are still lying in India. Some efforts have been made to produce the catalogs of Jaina Bhandars but they are not sufficient. Uptil now we have received following catalogues of Jaina Bhandars.

    * Jinaratna Kosa, Poona.
    * Kannada Prantiya Tadapatriya Grantha. Suchi, Moodbidri (Karnataka)
    * Jaina Siddhanta Bhawana Granthavali, Arrah.
    * Anekanta Granthavali, Bina (Sagar)
    * Rajsthana ke Jain Shastra Bhandaro ki Suchi, Jaipur.
    * Dilli Jina Granth Ratnavali, Delhi.

 An extensive survey of 30 districts of M.P., 2 of Chhatisagarh 2 of U.P. and 20 of Maharastra region has been made and for cataloguing purpose 25 teams have been formed.
 All are atleast graduate. Some of them are post graduate in Art Faculty specially in oriental languages. The list of 65 trainees are given below. Most of them live in Indore but some of them belongs to Ujjain, Raipur, Khandwa, Sonagir,(Datia) Jaipur, Bina (Sagar) and Tikamgarh District too. They have made an extensive survey of 31 Dist. of M.P., 20 of Maharastra, 2 of Chhattisagarh & 2 of U.P. ...

 Br. Rajani Jain, Indore
 Br. Aarti Jain, Firozabad (U.P.)
 Shri Rakesh Jain, Indore
 Pandit Rajendra Kumar Jain, Ujjain
 Shri Satish Jain, Indore
 Shri Dhirendra Kumar Jain, Indore
 Shri Sandesh Jain, Indore
 Shri Sachin Kumar Jain, Indore
 Shri Navin Kumar Verma, Indore
 Ku. Vandana Sharma, Indore
 Shri Mukesh Jain, Indore
 Smt. Manisha Jain, Indore
 Ku. Ruchi Jain, Indore
 Ku. Deepika Jain, Indore
 Ku. Nupur Shrimal, Indore
 Ku. Payal Shrimal, Indore
 Smt. Lalita Sethi, Indore
 Shri Pushpendra Kumar Jain, Indore
 Shri Kapil Tiwari, Indore
 Shri Vijay Gujaria, Indore
 Shri Vishal Kumar Jain, Indore
 Shri Sanjay Jain, Indore
 Shri Rupesh Jain, Khandwa
 Shri Nemichandra Jain, Indore
 Shri Animesh Ranvka, Indore
 Shri Narendra Kumar Jain, Ujjain
 Shri Bhau Rao Badnore,Ujjain
 Shri Nagendra Kumar Jain, Tikamgarh
 Br. Rekha Jain, Tikamgarh
 Shri Akhilesh Jain, Chhatarpur
 Shri Shailendra Mishra , Indore
 Shri Manish Kumar Jain, Indore
 Shri Virendra Kumar Jain, Indore
 Smt. Asha Jain, Indore
 Smt. Anupama Jain, Indore
 Shri Chandra Prakash Jain, 'Chandar' Sonagir (Datia)
 Shri Dhiraj Kumar Jain, Indore
 Ku. Megha Shrivastava, Indore
 Shri Mohan Jain, Bhind
 Br. Mahendra Jain, Jabalpur
 Shri Narendra Kumar Dixit, Indore
 Ku. Rupali Luhadia, Ujjain
 Shri Rajesh Kumar Jain, Indore
 Shri Rakesh Kumar Jain, Pawai
 Shri Sunil Kumar Patel, Indore
 Shri Vivek Jain, Raipur (C.G.)
 Smt. Veena Jain, Sihora (Jabalpur)
 Shri Brahmprakash Sharma, Indore
 Shri Anurag Jain, Jaipur
 Shri Ashish Nahta, Indore
 Shri Anubhav Kumar Jain, Indore
 Shri Arvind Dubey, Indore.
 Shri Rishabh Kumar Jain,Tikamgarh
 Shri Shitosh Kumar Jain,Tikamgarh
 Shri Ashish Jain,Tikamgarh
 Shri Deepak Jadhav, Barwani
 Shri Hemraj Jain, Indore
 Shri Jeevan Prakash Jain,Indore
 Shri Komalchand Jain, Indore
 Shri Neeraj Jain, Indore
 Shri Prakashchandra Jain, Indore
 Shri Ravikant Vats, Mustfapur 
 Ku. Seema Jain, Ujjain
 Shri Satish Jain, Ujjain
 Shri Vijay Jain, Indore.

The name of the Instructors with designations are given below-

  Dr. Pramod Mehra, Dy.Director- National Archives, New Delhi
  Br. Sandeep Jain, 'Saral' , Director-Anekant Gyan Mandir,Bina
  Dr. Sanjiv Saraf, Dy. Librarian, B.H.U.Varanasi
  Dr. Mahendra Kumar Jain, "Manuj',Traditional Scholar, Indore
  Br. Rajni Jain, Traditional Scholar,Indore.

Mr. Arvind Kumar Jain was the Conveyor of training program. He was manager of the project too. He guided the Surveyors and Cataloguers to make a tour programme and solve their day to day problems. Mrs. Surekha Mishra, Mr. Manakchand Jain & Miss Neetu Jain helped him. Br. Rajni Jain who have a good knowledge of Reading MSS helped a lot. Mr. Sanjay Seth M.C.A. guides us to solve the related problems. Computerisation work was done by Miss Neetu Jain & Mr. Visal Jain and checking of entries made by Br. Rajni Jain.

 Since 1999 we are busy in survey and cataloguing of manuscripts lying in Jain Bhandars. The project of listing of published Jaina, works and Manuscripts conducted by institute up to 31-03-2003. Project of National Register of Jaina Manuscripts has been conducted by it during April-03, Oct. 04 under the able guidance of National Archives of India. Under this
project cataloguing of 58766 Manuscripts laying in 479 Jain Bhandars of M.P., Chhattisagarh and Maharastra Region have been done.

Summary of it is as following..

  Madhya Pradesh

  Catalogued Bhandars                    322
  No. of dist. covered                     31
  Catalogued Manuscripts                41,900

  Maharashtra

  Catalogued Bhandars                    96
  No. of dist. covered                     20
  Catalogued Manuscripts                13,131

  Chattisgarh

  Catalogued Bhandars                    03
  No. of dist. covered                     02
  Catalogued Manuscripts                146

  Districts of  M.P & U.P  Borders

  Catalogued Bhandars                    58
  No. of dist. covered                     02
  Catalogued Manuscripts                3,589

  Total

  Catalogued Bhandars                    479
  No. of dist. covered                     55
  Catalogued Manuscripts                58,766