This page contains a donation inscription from a Digambara Jain manuscript, recording the gift of a book to the city of Kota. The donation was made by Bhaktavara Kishanalala Kanhaiyalalaji and Pandita Rajakumara Shastrina to the Syadvada Mandirasthapthagranthala at the Udasina Ashrama in Tukoganj, Indore. The purpose of the donation was the destruction of knowledge-obscuring karma, a key concept in Jain spiritual practice. The date is recorded as Ashvina Shukla 1, Samvat 1992.

Sanskrit

Cāṇakyarajanīti

This Sanskrit manuscript preserves a recension of the *Laghu Cāṇakya* or *Cāṇakya Nītiśāstra*, a classical Indian treatise on statecraft and moral philosophy attributed to the legendary minister Cāṇakya. The text sample encompasses the first three chapters (*adhyāyas*), presenting didactic verses (*ślokas*) on the paramount value of learning (*śruta*), the perils of excess (*ati*), and the cultivation of virtue through action rather than mere scholarship. Notable features include the distinctive colophon recording its donation to a Digambara Jain library in Indore in 1935 CE (Saṃvat 1992), and its preservation within a Śvetāmbara-associated *Syādvāda* temple collection, illustrating the cross-sectarian circulation of Hindu political wisdom literature among Jain institutions. The manuscript exhibits typical Modi-influenced scribal conventions with verse numbering and chapter divisions clearly marked.