Khuda Bakhsh Library

" The Patna Oriental Public Library is one of the finest collections on Moslem literature in the World," remarked V.C. Scott O'Connor, an orientalist of Edinburgh. Khuda Bakhsh struggled hard for years and paid fancy price for rare manuscripts and books to build his precious collection. Its fame crossed the borders. The British Museum once made him a magnificient offer for his collection but he declined it. He told to O'Connor " I am a poor man and the sum they offered me was a princely fortune, but could I ever part for money with that to which my father and I have dedicated our lives ? " and as he said his clear-cut features betrayed a single emotion; his large luminous eyes welled up with with tears."No" he said "the collection is for Patna and the gift shall be laid at the feet of the Patna public".

The Library specializes in Islamic studies, Tibb (Unani Medicine), Tazkira (Biography), Tasawwuf (Islamic Mysticism), Comparative religions, Medieval History, South East Asian History, West Asian History, Central Asian History, Medieval Science, Literature on Freedom Movement and National Integration as also Urdu, Persian and Arabic Literature.

It contains about twenty one thousand manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Turkish, Hindi and Sanskrit and palm leaves. It includes splendours of arts of Iranian, Mughal, Central Asian, Kashmiri and Rajasthani schools besides calligraphic masterpieces.

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