Jain eLibrary Project

Summary of Jain Literature on eLibrary Website

Largest eLibrary of Jain Literature at

Your Fingertips
(4000+ Jain books 3500+ articles on the website to enrich your knowledge)

www.JaineLibrary.org
Free-of-Charge Access
Non-commercial Website

Terms of Use
The information contained in the eLibrary website and also in the published
DVDs is for personal, private and individual use only. Its distribution in any
form or for any purpose whether commercial or non-commercial is prohibited.
It should not be copied to display on other websites.
For many of the Jain books we have obtained the permission from
authors/publishers for individual, private and non-commercial use only. We request
that if you notice any violation of your copy-righted material, please let us know and
we will remove your material from the website as soon as possible. In such cases,
we apologize for our inadvertent error. Our only intention is to spread the message of
non-violence, Ahimsak vegetarianism, and anekantwad of Jain religion throughout
the world in a non-commercial way.

Jain eLibrary Project

Jaina Education Committee
Federation of Jain Associations in North America
Jain Education International
Shri Gyanvardhak Charitable Trust

Table of Contents
Terms of Use.............................................................................................................................. 1

Jain eLibrary Projects ........................................................................................... 3

Jain eLibrary Website Project .................................................................................................... 3
Jain eLibrary CD/DVD Project ................................................................................................... 3
Request to Support eLibrary Project .......................................................................................... 4

Classification of Literature on Jain eLibrary .......................................................... 5

Literature and Technical Supporters ..................................................................... 6
Critical Supporters ...................................................................................................................... 6
Supporters .................................................................................................................................. 7

Key Members Contact Information ....................................................................... 8

Jain eLibrary Projects

Jain eLibrary Website Project
To protect, preserve, and disseminate the ancient and contemporary Jain literature, the
Education Committee of Federation of JAINA, North America, and Jain Education
International have launched a Jain eLibrary project. Under this project the Jain literature is
converted electronically into eBooks (pdf files) and made available via the website to the
readers who are interested in Jain religion and its philosophy.
The Jain elibrary website is an online collection of Jain literature, Jain scriptures,
manuscripts, dictionary, encyclopedia, articles and magazines in English, Hindi, Gujarati and
other languages. It also comprises a vast collection of literature on Jainism and its principles,
such as Ahimsa, compassion and Anekantvada. It also provides Jain educational material
for Pathshala (Jain Sunday school). Catalogues of Jain manuscripts of various Jain libraries
add to the diversity of this collection.
The website literature represents all aspects of Jainism. While the readers discover the
richness and spirituality of our ancient Jain literature, it also helps the authors and publishers
to reach a new audience. Jain eLibrary project provides totally free access to its website and
it is a non-commercial website; therefore, the supporting organizations do not benefit
financially from the readers.

Jain eLibrary CD/DVD Project

After the successful establishment of Jain eLibrary website, we received many requests from
Jain monks and nuns of all sects to make the eLibrary literature available on CD/DVDs. This
way they can easily get the benefit of the vast collection of the Jain literature without carrying
a large number of books during their vihar (travelling on foot). With the help of CD/DVDs
they can easily get the prints form their Jain lay followers. Hence we have decided to
publish the Jain eLibrary on DVDs under the following guide lines.
The Jain literature should remain on the eLibrary website for atleast 6 months before
we publish it on DVD. We believe that six months is a long enough time to receive
any objection letter from the owners - authors or publishers - of the literature. Even if
we receive the letter after six months, we will remove it from the website and from the
future DVD publications.
In January 2010, we published DVD set 1 consist of 4 DVDs (DVD no 1 to 4). This set
contained about 2000 ancient and contemporary Jain literature books. DVD set 1 is
dedicated to Late Shrutsthavira Pujya Muniraj Shree Jambuvijayji Maharaj Saheb for his
great support to Jain eLibrary.
In January 2012, we published DVD set 2 consisting 4 DVDs (DVD no 5 to 8). This set
contains additional 1800 ancient and contemporary Jain literature books. DVD set 2 is
dedicated to Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra & Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri
Gyanmandir, Koba Ahmedabad.

Where to Buy eLibrary DVDs and Jaina Education Books

All the books on these DVDs are also available on the website for free download. For your
convenience, the eLibrary DVDs are sold on the basis of no-profit/no-loss. To buy the DVDs
please go to Website:
www.jainelibrary.org
On Home Page click the appropriate link.

Request for Support

The entire project is supported by contributions from Jain communities of North America,
India, and other parts of the world. Volunteers prepare Jain education material and manage
eLibrary activities. They pay for their own expenses in doing these activities and also
donate to the cause. So, 100% of your contributions go to paying for scanning,
website related expenses, printing and shipping of Pathshala books. We depend on the
generosity of our supporters to carry forward these worthy tasks. We thank you for your
support for the Jaina Education and eLibrary activities. Your generosity inspires us, for that
we are truly grateful to you.
If you wish to lend your support, you may contribute in US dollars or Indian Rupees. Please
use the website www.jainelibrary.org and click on the Donation link. You can also send us
an e-mail at education@jaina.org or call +1-919-859-4994 (USA).
For donation and/or communication, please use the website or the following address:

Contribution can be made as follows

1. Credit Card or Paypal Account (US $ Only) Donation is Tax deductible in USA
http://www.jainlibrary.org/donation1.php
2. By Check / Cheque or Bank Draft (US $ Only) Donation is Tax deductible in USA
Name - Jain Education International
Mailing Address
C/o J C Flag Corporation
821E. Artesia, Blvd, Carson CA 90746-1203 USA
Telephone +1-310-523-4411 USA,
E-mail - jainaedu@gmail.com
3. By Check / Cheque or Bank Draft (Indian Rupees Only) Donation is Tax deductible in India
Name - Shree Gyanvardhak Charitable Trust
Mailing Address
C/O Arihant Graphics (Sudesh Shah)
Nanakram Super Market, Shop No FF-20,
Ramnagar, Sabarmati
Ahmedabad - 380005 (Gujarat) India
Telephone +91 99988 90335 (India),
E-mail - arihant.graf@gmail.com
Pravin K. Shah
Project in-charge
509, Carriage Wood Circle,
Raleigh, NC 27607-3969 USA.
Website: www.jainelibrary.org
E-mail: education@jaina.org
Phone: +1-919-859-4994 USA

Overview of Literature on Jain eLibrary website

Jaina Education Pthashl Books and Other Education Literature

Jain gams

Commentary on gams

Digambar Literature

Four Anuyogas

Karma Granths, Jain History, Jain Geography and Philosophy

Conduct and Rituals

Jain Art and History

Jain Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Kosh

Smruti Granth, Abhinandan Granth, Memorabilia

Jain Seminar proceedings and Collected articles on various subjects

Manuscripts and Manuscript Catalogues

Jain Magazines

Jain Articles

Punya Vijayji, Jambu Vijayji and Jinvijayjis literature

Prakrita Text Society and Acharya Shilchandrasurijis literature

Complete set of Biawar Published gams

Shrimad Rajchandra, Atmanandji and Rakesh Jhaveris literature

Kanji Swami and Pandit Todarmal Trust literature

Veerayatan literature

Pundit Sukhlalji, Bahechardas Doshi, Dalsukh Malvaniya and Ratibhai Desais literature

Parshvanath Vidyapith and Dr. Sagarmal Jains literature

L D Indology, B. L. Institute, and Shri Mahavir Jain Vidyalayas published literature.

Jain Meditation Center NY and Gurudev Chitrabhanujis literature

Dhirajlal D. Mehta, Ramanbhai C, Shah, Sunandaben Vohra and others literature.

JAINA Souvenirs, Jain Centers Souvenirs

Classification of Literature on Jain eLibrary website

Category

Num of Books

Jaina Education Book and Other reference Book

English Book
Devangari Hindi Book
(Prkrit, Sanskrit, Hindi)
Gujarati Book
Dictionary (Kosh)
Smruti Granth / Abhinandan Granth
Manuscripts Catalogue
Seminar Book
Printed Manuscript
Magazine
Article
Ritual Text
Jain Audio Stavan / Sutra / Vidhi
Publishers Catalogue

Total Pages

17
417

1900
83,000

1868

6,13,000

1310

3,49,000

87
65
43
31
150
950
3550
69
72
4

53,500
45,000
22,000
9,500
56,000
68,000
28,500
5,200
Audio
50

Literature and Technical Supporters

The success of the eLibrary project is highly dependant upon the support and cooperation of
a large number of community leaders, scholars, dedicated volunteers and contributors. The
Jaina Education Committee and Jain Education International are fortunate to bring all such
people together for this project. Several Jain Acharyas provided blessings, inspiration and
critical support needed for this project

Critical Supporters
The project was launched when Digambar Acharya Shri Suvidhi Sagarji Maharaj provided
about 200,000 pages of scanned images (650 books) of ancient and contemporary Jain
literature in January 2007. The Scanned images were received from Dr Sagarmal Jain. This
critical event accelerated Pravin K Shahs efforts to see his dream - providing Jain literature
free to all who wanted to read it from anywhere in the world - come true. This has become
his life mission. There is no exaggeration in saying that without his passion & dedication this
website would not have been as successful as the numbers suggest (average 150 books
downloaded every day from 75 countries).
The backbone support for this project is provided by Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra &
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir, Koba, Ahmedabad, India. The institution was
established by Acharya Shri Padmasagarji Maharaj. Panyas Shri Ajaysagarji Maharaj has
provided great inspiration and total support including selection of books and technical
support in the development of a special scanning program. The institution has developed the
program for this work. The staff members enthusiastically support all aspects of this project.
Pujya Muni Shri Jambuvijayji Maharaj, Pujya Acharya Shri Shilchandrasuriji Maharaj and
Acharya Shri Nandighoshsuriji Maharaj have provided the literature, guidance, support and
their blessings to this project.
Ramesh C Doshi of Jain Education International manages the eLibrary project in India.
Activities in India include finding books, scanning, making PDF, uploading, maintaining &
improving the website, and trust related matters.
Virendra Shah of Los Angeles who is incharge of receiving, storing, and distributing eLibrary
literature and Jaina education material to the community at large in USA and around the
world.
Sudesh Shah of Arihant Graphics of Ahmedabad, India, provides critical backbone support
to this project. He acquires books from various libraries, scans them, creates pdf files and
uploads them to the website.
Hemant Parikh (Amrut Printers, Ahmedabad, India) printed Pathshala books and made
eLibrary DVDs. His support has been excellent not only in printing but also in storing and
shipping the books and DVDs.
Saket Singhi of JVS Technology Pvt Ltd of Ahmedabad India developed the eLibrary
Website. He maintains and improves various functions associated with the website.
Dr Sagarmal Jain (Sajapur, MP), is an advisor to eLibrary. He helps in obtaining the
necessary permissions needed for certain literature for the website usage. He also helps in
categorization of the literature. He selected and provided more than 500 Jain books for
scanning from the Prachya Vidyapith library.
Dr. Madhusudan Dhaky is an advisor to Jain eLibrary and Education projects.
Dr Jitendra B Shah of L. D. Indology is an advisor and helps in categorization of the
literature.
Bhadrabahu Vijaybhai is an advisor to eLibrary. He provided help in classification effort and
selection process of Jan literature. He also provided selected literature for scanning.

Narendra Jain of Los Angeles provides website technical support.

Ketan Shah and Sanjay Gurjar of Shri Mahavir Aradhana Kendra provide technical and data
entry support needed for this project.

Supporters
The following is the list of the people and institutions who have supported this project by
providing their literature, website support, scanning support and guidance.
Shri Atmanandaji of Shrimad Rajchandra Adhyatmic Kendra Koba provided Shrimad
Rajchandra associated literature.
Sadhvi Shri Subhamji of Veerayatan provided Upadhyay Shri Amarmunis literature
Shri Pratapbhai Bhogilal provided more than 60 books published by Shri Mahavir Jain
Vidyalaya and Shri B. L. Institute.
Dr Navindra Jain of San Jose CA provides mdb database support. He developed the initial
website.
Sahil Shah of San Jose CA classified various categories of scanned books. Ashish Mody of
Raleigh provides technical support and Rekha Banker of Raleigh supports editing.
Dr Naginbhai J. Shah provided his publications and guidance for the scanning material.
The family member of late Shri Ratibhai D Desai provided all their publications and literature
of Pundit Sukhlalji and Dalsukh Malvaniaji.
Padmashri Kumarpal Desai offered Jaybhikkhus Jain literature for eLibrary.
108 Jain Tirth Darshan Bhavan Late Shri Anilbhai Gandhi provided all their published
literature.
Pandit Dhirajlal D Mehta of Surat provided all his publications and helped us in
categorization of books.
Purnimaben of Gujarat Vidyapith provided selected literature for scanning.
The family members of Late Shri Ramanbhai C Shah provided all his publications for Jain
eLibrary.
Rajendrabhai Shah (UK) of Shri Digambar Jain Svadhyaya Trust Songadh provided
Kanjiswamis literature in pdf format.
Dr. Bipinbhai Doshi of Mumbai has publicized this project in Mumbai area on various
occasions.
Lalitbhai Shah of Ahmedabad has supported the project by providing ancient and
contemporary Jain literature from his library.
Babubhai S Bedawala of Ahmedabad has supported the project by providing scanned books
from his personal library.
Mr. Prabhu R Raghunathan (Pittsburg, USA) provided 1500 PDF files of Jain Religion from
Digital Library of India.
Pujya Deepratnasagarji Maharaj Saheb provided PDF files of his publication.
Pujya Bra. Basant Jain ji also provided Jain Taran Sahitya from Chopra (Maharashtra).
Shrutbhavan Project (Pune, India) provided a few PDF Files on Jainism.
Dr Anupam Jain from Kundkundacharya Granthalaya (Indore, India) provided PDF files of
their Magazine.

Jain eLibrary Project and Jaina Education

Committee
Key Members Contact Information
P.P. Panyas Muni Shri
Ajayasagarji - Shri Mahvir
Jain rdhan Kendra,
Kob, Ahmedabad
Dr. Sagarmal Jain - Shri
Prchya Vidypith

kobatirth@kobatirth.org

sagarmal.jain@gmail.com

Principle advisor and

primary supporter of
eLibrary project and
Technical support
Principle advisor and
Primary supporter of
eLibrary project

Kob,
Ahmedabad

Sjpur MP,
India

Pravin K Shah

education@jaina.org
1-919-859-4994 USA

Chairperson

Raleigh, NC

Ramesh C Doshi

rcdoshi@yahoo.com

Manages eLibrary
activities and Jaina
education books in India

Ahmedabad,
India & Los
Angeles, CA

Virendra Shah (JC Flag

Corp.)

jcflag@yahoo.com
http://www.jcflags.com

Pthashl Books & DVD

Los Angeles, CA
Distribution

Sudesh Shah (Arihant

Graphics)

arihant.graf@gmail.com

Unicode Data Entry,

Scanning & Uploading,
DVD & Book Distribution

Koba,
Ahmedabad,
India

Saket Singhi
(JVS Technologies Pvt.
Ltd.)

saket@jvsgroup.com
www.jvsgroup.com

eLibrary Website Design

& Support

Ahmedabad,
India

Hemant Parikh (Amrut

Printers)

hparikh@rediffmail.com

Pthashl Book Printing Ahmedabad,

& DVD Manufacturing
India

Ketan Shah-Shri Mahvir

Jain rdhan Kendra

kobatirth@kobatirth.org

Technical support,
Unicode Data Entry

Koba,
Ahmedabad,
India

Rajendra Mehta

rajkumud2000@yahoo.com

Pthashl Teachers
Yahoo Groups

Orlando, FL

Pradip and Darshana

Shah

pradipks1@comcast.net

Education Material

Chicago, IL

Sudhir and Anita Shah

sudhir@optonline.net

Education Material

Woodbridge, CT

Mukesh Doshi

mukusha@gmail.com

Education Material

Chicago, IL

Parinda Shah

shah.parinda@gmail.com

Education Material

Chicago, CA

Dilip Bobra

dkbobra@gmail.com

Education Material

Phoenix, AZ

Harendra Shah

haren_shah@yahoo.com

Education Material

Milpitas, CA

Rekha Banker

rekha@rti.org

Education Material

Raleigh, NC

Samuel Wallace

lynnwallace@peoplepc.com Education Material

Raleigh, NC

Arpan Shah

arpanshah1@gmail.com

Jain Academic Bawl

Houston, TX

Hiral Shah

hiral.shah.91@gmail.com

Education Material

Poona, India (UK

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