The adversary's library

Claim (verbatim)

The adversary's library: Jain manuscript libraries preserved their opponents better than the opponents preserved themselves. Jain debate pedagogy required possession of rival texts, and the temple bhandaras had the institutional continuity that Brahmanical family-and-school transmission lacked; Brahmanical lines copied their own school, Jain libraries copied the whole battlefield. The subcontinent's involuntary archive of everyone's philosophy should therefore be Jain — and where a text's earliest witnesses sit is a readout of who needed to refute it, not of who wrote it.

Prediction clause (verbatim)

Compare published catalogues. Primary clause: the share of non-Jain darsana titles among philosophical holdings in the Jaisalmer and Patan bhandara catalogues is at least three times the share of non-Brahmanical (Jain plus Buddhist) philosophical titles in a comparable Brahmanical collection catalogue such as the Sarasvati Bhavan, Varanasi; the verdict follows this clause. Secondary clause: at least five non-Jain philosophical works have their oldest dated witness in a Jain bhandara.

Kill-dataset (verbatim)

Kill: the published catalogues of the Jaisalmer and Patan Jain bhandaras (e.g. Jambuvijaya's Jaisalmer catalogue) and the Sarasvati Bhavan Sanskrit manuscript catalogue series, cross-checked in the New Catalogus Catalogorum.

Novelty / leakage triage

provisional — model-triaged, shepherd review pending

A provisional first pass authored by the model (Opus), not yet confirmed by the shepherd. It carries the same dated-search requirements as an authoritative verdict but is excluded from every headline figure and cannot underwrite a prediction until a shepherd confirms it. Provisional reading: Leaked (already exists in the literature).

The connection is an established, oft-stated fact of Indian manuscript history, not a new join: the Jain temple bhandaras are the involuntary archive of their opponents' philosophy -- much of Buddhist pramana literature (Dharmakirti's Pramanavarttika, Dharmottara's Nyayabindutika, Santaraksita's Tattvasangraha) survives in Sanskrit chiefly because Jain libraries at Jaisalmer and Patan preserved it, where the Jaisalmer holdings notably span other schools' logic and grammar. So both clauses -- Jain collections carrying a high non-Jain philosophical share, and non-Jain works having their oldest witnesses in Jain bhandaras -- restate the received picture; the item's contribution is a comparative catalogue ratio, not the connection.

• Kshitij Jain, 'An Anekantic Approach to Jain Manuscript Culture: A Critical Study' (ISJS, 2023) — Buddhist philosophy (Dharmakirti, Dharmottara, Santaraksita) safeguarded in Jain libraries
• Muni Jambuvijaya (ed.), A Catalogue of Manuscripts in Jaisalmer Jain Bhandaras; Patan (Hemachandracharya) bhandara catalogues — The kill datasets recording non-Jain philosophical holdings and dated witnesses

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