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On the occasion of Paryushan Parva, we sincerely request for forgiveness if we may have hurt your feelings by thoughts, words or actions, knowingly or unknowingly.
MICHCHHAMI DUKKADDAM
The Success Story of the Jain eLibrary Project
In 4 years of the Jain eLibrary website operation, more than 15000 Jains, non-Jains, and academicians, from 96 different countries became registered users of the website. They have downloaded more than 150,000 books and articles.
The present website consists of 5300 Jain books, 3500 Jain articles by various scholars, 1000 Magazines and Souvenirs, 185 printed Manuscripts, and about 75 audio files.
Just over the past 30 days (during Paryushana times), more than 1100 new users registered and downloaded about 10,000 books and articles. Yet the Website response time has not degraded at all and there are no major outstanding technical issues left to resolve. All of our users, from all sects of Jainism, have generally been satisfied and appreciative. We accomplished this monumental task by putting together very dedicated volunteer teams. Except for scanning work, all of the rest of the work has been accomplished by volunteers, including the development of the website.
Over the period of 4 years, we have scanned, compiled, and uploaded more than 2,000,000 pages of Jain literature.
Shri Mahavir Aradhana Kendra Koba (near Ahmedabad) Gujarat India is the single most Institute who supported this project in all aspects of its needs. The trustees of the Institute have always enthusiastically helped JAINA Education Committee and eLibrary project. The technical support was provided by its computer department, and Jain literature books were provided by its library staff. Pujya Panyas Shri Ajay Sagarji Maharaj Saheb provided the vision and guidance to the eLibrary projects and edited several Pathashala books. He also guided their computer staff to develop a robust scanning program.
Hats off to Shri Mahavir Aradhana Kendra Institute and Pujya Panyas Shri Ajay Sagarji Maharaj Saheb.
Regards
Pravin and Arti Shah
Members of Jaina Education Committee
Members of eLibrary Project Team